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> The pessimism in this thread really bothers me. It's the demographics. The HN population skews extremely old and older people are generally more pessimistic,
by elfexec 7y ago
> The pessimism in this thread really bothers me.
It's the demographics. The HN population skews extremely old and older people are generally more pessimistic, cynical and risk averse. Also, there is a large amount of traditional media workers on HN and they, for obvious reasons, are not fans of the tech industry since the tech industry is eating their lunch.
Don't let the thread get you down. It's a skewed and biased representation that isn't based on the real world.
- ptx 7y ago"Extremely old" compared to the general population? Are you saying HN mostly consists of retired Cobol programmers?
- mancerayder 7y agoI'm going to be cynical and say, maybe >32 was the cut-off point in the OP's message. "OK, Boomer." There's something to be said about assuming a that very large volume of mostly-anonymous messages on the Internet can be deteremined by the OP to be old. That sounds like ... something a young person might say.
- smolder 7y agoIs there some kind of demographic data for HN or is this based on your impression from comments? I wouldn't expect a large amount of traditional media workers.
- cunac 7y agoyou say pessimism I say the experience and better insight how life really works YMMW