"sometimes this site is like if the worst parts of linkedin and reddit had a baby" I think that's a quality observation. One of the helpful observations of hu

"sometimes this site is like if the worst parts of linkedin and reddit had a baby" I think that's a quality observation. One of the helpful observations of humans I've gained from this site is that people tend to assume that their position in society is some kind of natural given. And typically the folks here are either what some folks might term "labor aristocracy" or literal aristocracy. Hence the reason why skipping humanities classes has been so harmful- they haven't spent the effort to appreciate the vast width of human experience. So when they are confronted with ideas about how other folks live, their inclination to see themselves as naturally in a solid position makes it difficult to see why other people make the choices they make. Fundamentally the folks on this site have a highly chauvinistic picture of their culture and really, at their core, are "anti-democratic" because they don't feel other folks can make rational choices about life. It's only recently that this has become an "out loud" thing to say, but I have been hearing it quite a lot lately. This trend has been something I've been paying attention to for a long time- I've had a quicklink to search for "musk" in titles of the site since about the time he bought twitter because I could see where this is going, and I feel unfortunately validated in that feeling. But if you want to check the pulse on the nihilistic sociopaths who are now in charge of parts of the US Gov, this site is very helpful. Also good for finding out about running doom on various devices, but that's just a side benefit.