First, thank you for moderating HackerNews, and keeping the discussions civil. I will do my best to avoid feeding flamewars in the future. I've been enjoying be

First, thank you for moderating HackerNews, and keeping the discussions civil. I will do my best to avoid feeding flamewars in the future. I've been enjoying being a part of the community for over a decade in no small part thanks to your work in establishing and enforcing the guidelines you linked. My goal with this comment - as at least one other commenter understood - was to introduce the concept of Marginal Propensity to Consume[1] in a simple way, and with a bit of humor. One thing I have learned from many years of teaching and giving conference talks is that when a new concept is introduced to someone with a dry language, it will, in most likelihood, will be ignore, or immediately forgotten. This applies to college freshmen as well as tenured mathematics professors. My goal was to get responses like[2]. Alas, in my attempt to write thought-provoking comments, I ended up writing simply provoking ones. Note taken. I'm not writing this to disagree with you assessment of the thread, but to clarify the intent and put my account history in context. Thank you again, -r [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_propensity_to_consume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_propensity_to_consume [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29488150 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29488150