>It's honestly shocking to me how many anarcho-capitalists there are, especially here on HN. Because HN is full of 'temporarily embarrassed billionaires'[1]. A

>It's honestly shocking to me how many anarcho-capitalists there are, especially here on HN. Because HN is full of 'temporarily embarrassed billionaires'[1]. A lot of people here are either vested in big tech or see themselves creating the next big-tech in the future hoping to become the next Steve Jobs. They saw how the likes of Meta, Apple, Google and Microsoft got super rich through exploiting various legal and market loopholes, so they see these upcoming regulations as a threat to their own enrichment. Kind of like technological NIMBYism. It's difficult to have unbiased discussions on big-tech regulations when many here have built their wealth or careers on big-tech being deregulated and exploiting every trick in the book, and now suddenly get to watch as the ladder is pulled from under them shuddering at the though that SW engineering will be paid like other professions (like in Europe) instead of being a professional get-rich quick ticket it was/still is for now. [1] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/temporarily_embarrassed_millionaire https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/temporarily_embarrassed_mil...