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That’s not totally wrong but I’d put it differently. This site is home to a lot of people who work hard to try to do something useful. It inspires resentment to
by api 5y ago
That’s not totally wrong but I’d put it differently. This site is home to a lot of people who work hard to try to do something useful. It inspires resentment to see people get rich by just holding a token. Makes you feel like a fool for trying to do useful work.
I think the almost religious zeal makes it much worse. People win the lottery but they don’t claim to be geniuses or representatives of a shining new utopia for it. They just say they won the lottery.
- codehalo 5y agoI understand, but people get rich all the time holding stock like AAPL or TSLA. HN doesn't seem to have a problem with that. Some people see the future, do the research and risk it all on a stock or a cryptocurrency, some people take their last ten dollars blindly gamble on a lotto ticket or a cryptocurrency. How they earned the money they risk should be of no concern.