Re: your last sentence, this tells me that "the HN community" skews toward programmers who are happy to collect big paychecks while turning a blind eye to where

Re: your last sentence, this tells me that "the HN community" skews toward programmers who are happy to collect big paychecks while turning a blind eye to where the money comes from, e.g. what their founders and CEOs did to successfully startup. Airbnb, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber - off the top of my head - all very prosperous and genteel now, but all came from hardscrabble rule-breaking backgrounds.