The startup/“entrepreneur” contingent on hacker news generally considers anything that makes money inherently good, aside from extreme immoral cases. There is

The startup/“entrepreneur” contingent on hacker news generally considers anything that makes money inherently good, aside from extreme immoral cases. There is a subgroup in there that is especially interested in low effort ways to make money, with the ultimate goal being to scrape off enough of the money flowing around to either live a good life or get rich. In summary, the middle-man approach is so interesting on hacker news because a significant portion of the readership aspires to be the middle man.