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Why would anyone want to "exercise curiosity" about abject nonsense? There's nothing to be curious about here. You might as well make the same comment on any
by memefrog 3y ago
Why would anyone want to "exercise curiosity" about abject nonsense? There's nothing to be curious about here. You might as well make the same comment on any topic where something has been dismissed. The concept of "every human need" (whatever a "need" is, given that anatomically modern humans lived without electricity for hundreds of thousands of years just fine) necessarily being provided without any profit motive is just plain stupid. It's being dismissed for that reason.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoBecause it's part of the site guidelines[1]. > Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. People who don't follow the guidelines make HN a worse place. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- forgetfreeman 3y agoWhat is "stupid", or even controversial, about the idea that society should be organized to provide for people's needs? To suggest that society should be a zero sum economic gladiatorial affair, that that's the best our species can do or should strive for, seems like a failure of imagination to me.