I mean, I wouldn't trade my life for almost any other life - even a life of greater wealth and power. But to take the point you've made and work through its co

I mean, I wouldn't trade my life for almost any other life - even a life of greater wealth and power. But to take the point you've made and work through its conclusions: Hacker News skews heavily privileged male high-income engineer, and likely wouldn't trade their lives to live as an _American_ female, much less a Detroiter, Hispanic laborer, or American prison inmate. Living in the world's sole superpower (most of HN) has, of course, its own advantages that we don't need to enumerate. Chinese future looks a lot brighter according to most political forecasters, economists, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Century