> “And I think on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get their first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, an

> “And I think on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get their first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.” The moderators are volunteers who work for free. The landed gentry were rent seekers who sought to live entirely from that income. If anyone is the landed gentry here, it's Hoffman. Maybe he should allow Reddit users to vote on retaining him as CEO seeing how important democracy is to him. What an asshole.