"See the problem here is you're projecting your emotions and empathy onto my business. From a business perspective that's a bad thing to do. What I've done is

"See the problem here is you're projecting your emotions and empathy onto my business. From a business perspective that's a bad thing to do. What I've done is operate on data. My customers are faceless numbers, not people, and so long as they give me money I don't care about them. What a lot of HN fails to realize is that the overwhelming majority of the world are suckers who will do whatever advertising convinces them to." I'm admittedly taking some liberties here, but it grieves me that business is now pretty much "fuck you I've got mine, or I'll do whatever it takes to get it." There must be a better way.