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Why wouldn't we want that? Isn't the point of progress to improve life for everyone?
by eggsmediumrare 6y ago
Why wouldn't we want that? Isn't the point of progress to improve life for everyone?
- ProfessorLayton 6y agoThis is completely subjective. In many countries it's very common to have multiple generations living under one roof all supporting each other.
- yeahAL09 6y agorayiner is an American lawyer with heavy bias to tradition in that context. If America changes too much, all that legal education goes to waste. It’s biologically motivated self selection. “Keep the laws and norms from changing, or my influence!”
- dang 6y agoPersonal attacks aren't allowed and will get you banned here, so please don't. Also, while I have you: could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20community%20identity https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
- erik_seaberg 6y agoHigher wages in an industry are good for workers who make the cut, but bad for everyone else.