'Privatize profits, socialize losses beyond a certain threshold' wouldn't be as compelling of a slogan to rally behind. It's unfortunate that a sizable fractio

'Privatize profits, socialize losses beyond a certain threshold' wouldn't be as compelling of a slogan to rally behind. It's unfortunate that a sizable fraction of HN comments veer into sloganeering nowadays but I don't blame the parent, there are simply not that many interesting one-liners left to say that hasn't been said dozens of times already after 35 million comments.