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Maybe you should provide concrete examples instead of suggesting I talk to more poor people.
by tomschlick 8y ago
Maybe you should provide concrete examples instead of suggesting I talk to more poor people.
- andbberger 8y agohmm not sure the burden is on me here buddy, you opened with the classic 'middlebrow dismissal'. The people are: - drowning in debt - dying of preventable diseases because they cannot afford healthcare - working for a fraction of the true value of their labour, a fraction that gets smaller every year - losing more workers rights every year. The 'gig' economy was a master stroke of misdirection that destroyed basic protections like minimum wage and an 8 hour day that our predecessors fought so hard for - not getting nearly enough sleep ... shall I go on? But yeah, I'm sure none of that really bothers them and what they're ACTUALLY concerned about is that we can't make up our mind whether the sky is falling or not. Right.
- dang 8y agoCan you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? It only makes this place worse, which helps no one. Giving up on respectful persuasion in order to bash enemies is a bad trade. True, you'll probably never persuade the commenter you're arguing with, but that's not what matters. What matters is the audience reading the thread. If you go into snark and aggression, the effect is to discredit your good points with the larger audience, weakening the influence of the truth you're trying to impart. That's one reason why the site guidelines ask you not to do that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- andbberger 7y agoOK fair I could have said the same thing in a more neutral tone