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This comment sounds very harsh on first reading but I'm having trouble finding anything actually incorrect about it ... I just pray this doesn't hit the wider e

by tome 4y ago

This comment sounds very harsh on first reading but I'm having trouble finding anything actually incorrect about it ... I just pray this doesn't hit the wider economy.

DonHopkins 4y ago
Shitty ass dog feeders are connected with wifi, not bluetooth.
zdragnar 4y ago
It overlooks everyone who is just starting out, everyone employed at these companies that isn't making techbro salary like the receptionists, custodial staff, QA, workers on visas, whatever. Simple fantasies for simple minds, no different than lazy racism or any other form of bigotry.
- tome 4y ago
  That's a fair point.
- ohgodplsno 4y ago
  Indeed, for that extremely minor part of companies that about noone on HN has ever cared about, except when it becomes practical to use them, it's troublesome. But since there still exists hundreds of billions of dollars ready to be wasted on bullshit endeavours,I have no doubt they will all find jobs soon in the next cloud cat feeder startup. Your mind immediately equating good old schadenfreude with lazy racism is indeed telling, but I'll refrain from saying anything, Americans have never been excellent at either context or nuance.
  - zdragnar 4y ago
    > but I'll refrain from saying anything Sounds like you did. In any case, schadenfreude typically falls into one of three categories: justice, rivalry or aggression. The OP sounds like they are experiencing the justice aspect- that these people who contribute so little are now enduring hardship. The problem is that "these people" is just another lazy stereotype- it is just another form of aggression; equating everyone who is hurt here as "easy jobs that can easily be replaced" is not unlike assuming everyone living in a ghetto neighborhood is a thug. The effects and scope of harm of the stereotype may be different, but both come from the same mental state of mind- these people are other, they don't live like I think they should, and they get what they deserve, despite the fact that the "they" in the sentiment is not representative of the people harmed by it.

by tome 4y ago

This comment sounds very harsh on first reading but I'm having trouble finding anything actually incorrect about it ... I just pray this doesn't hit the wider economy.

DonHopkins 4y ago

Shitty ass dog feeders are connected with wifi, not bluetooth.

zdragnar 4y ago

It overlooks everyone who is just starting out, everyone employed at these companies that isn't making techbro salary like the receptionists, custodial staff, QA, workers on visas, whatever. Simple fantasies for simple minds, no different than lazy racism or any other form of bigotry.

tome 4y ago
That's a fair point.
ohgodplsno 4y ago
Indeed, for that extremely minor part of companies that about noone on HN has ever cared about, except when it becomes practical to use them, it's troublesome. But since there still exists hundreds of billions of dollars ready to be wasted on bullshit endeavours,I have no doubt they will all find jobs soon in the next cloud cat feeder startup. Your mind immediately equating good old schadenfreude with lazy racism is indeed telling, but I'll refrain from saying anything, Americans have never been excellent at either context or nuance.
- zdragnar 4y ago
  > but I'll refrain from saying anything Sounds like you did. In any case, schadenfreude typically falls into one of three categories: justice, rivalry or aggression. The OP sounds like they are experiencing the justice aspect- that these people who contribute so little are now enduring hardship. The problem is that "these people" is just another lazy stereotype- it is just another form of aggression; equating everyone who is hurt here as "easy jobs that can easily be replaced" is not unlike assuming everyone living in a ghetto neighborhood is a thug. The effects and scope of harm of the stereotype may be different, but both come from the same mental state of mind- these people are other, they don't live like I think they should, and they get what they deserve, despite the fact that the "they" in the sentiment is not representative of the people harmed by it.