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>I would say that HN readers and contributors are among the smartest people on the web But HN readers are almost exclusively rich white American males. They'v
by jellicle 15y ago
>I would say that HN readers and contributors are among the smartest people on the web
But HN readers are almost exclusively rich white American males. They've never had any adverse experiences in their lives. They've never been frisked by the police; they've never gone hungry for even one meal; they borrowed money from their parents to get started; their parents put them through college.
Having no experience of adversity is proven to produce feelings of excessive competence/arrogance in people. And that's pretty much what you see here.
Very few of them have any sense of the society that they are coasting on top of, nor does telling them that they are one injury from abject poverty make any difference. They don't really believe it, not in their hearts.
So, sorry, but you aren't going to get a lot of sensible responses about taxation here. They're incapable of it.
- larrys 15y ago"But HN readers are almost exclusively rich white American males. They've never had any adverse experiences in their lives. They've never been frisked by the police; they've never gone hungry for even one meal; they borrowed money from their parents to get started; their parents put them through college." Where are you getting all this from? "nor does telling them that they are one injury from abject poverty make any difference" That seems to contradict this: "rich white American males.....they borrowed money from their parents to get started
- throwaway65 15y agoTextbook example of an ad hominem argument. Honestly, a basic understanding of logical fallacies should be a mandatory prerequisite for posting on HN.
- rsanchez1 15y agoThat would preclude the vast majority of the Democrat audience from posting. On the other hand, it would go a long way toward reversing the trend of HN becoming more like Reddit.
- rsanchez1 15y agoOver-generalization much? A lot of HN'ers either work in startups or founded one themselves. I'd say that will put them through enough adverse experience to know what they're talking about.