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> Krugman trying to take the piss while he literally makes his living off substack, an a16z funded platform designed to give creators very different platforms a
by neilv 1y ago
> Krugman trying to take the piss while he literally makes his living off substack, an a16z funded platform designed to give creators very different platforms and thus finances than they had six years ago, and clearly doesn’t even know it is infuriating.
"How dare this vile journalist criticize a holy god techbro, while using a Web site?!"
Incidentally, here we are on HN, the lounge of junior techbros, which still systematically posts a piracy link for every paywalled news story. Krugman came from one of those revenue-starved news organizations that oblivious techbros are kicking while they're down. If some techbros then deign to toss Krugman some peanuts, for providing "content" on the techbro's property, Krugman should be thankful, and not dare bite the hand that feeds him?
There are bad people and idiots in this story, and it's not the journalist.
- avmich 1y agoNot a piracy link, a link to a library.
- vessenes 1y agoI think you’re stuck in some sort of weird culture war head canon here. Building a platform that lets journalists choose their monetization and be independently wealthy enough to write what they want is awesome. Using that platform to denigrate teams that built the same platform is intellectually lazy, terrible for inspiring the next generation of innovators and beneath Krugman.