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Not all participants are equal. You are conflating participation from equality, yes everyone participates in the system, it takes a lot of privileged to be abl
by genxy 5mo ago
Not all participants are equal.
You are conflating participation from equality, yes everyone participates in the system, it takes a lot of privileged to be able to disassociate ones self from the system itself. The power dynamic within the system favors the wealthy, whom have decided that this is the path we are going down.
- ncruces 5mo agoWriting about "the wealthy" on a site like HN is always interesting. Who do you mean? The vast majority of HN commenters are 10%ers and very many are 1%ers. But there's always someone richer to complain about.
- ryandrake 5mo agoHN loves to nit-pick about what "the wealthy" actually means, but in most contexts, when someone complains "the wealthy" did this or "the wealthy" did that, what they mean are a very, very tiny number of people who are not on HN, not in anyone on HN's family, and not intimately known by anyone on HN. When someone says "the wealthy" are getting rich to everyone's detriment, they are almost never talking about the doctor who lives three doors down the street from you who drives a nice new 911 or the guy who owns 20 laundromats in your city. I think we all know who we're talking about.
- JumpCrisscross 5mo agoBroadly speaking, when anyone says the rich or the wealthy, they mean people richer than themselves. I’ve seen everyone from line workers to multimillionaires do it.
- otherme123 5mo agoReminds me of a casual conversation with a 1%, maybe a 0.1%: "we [meaning he and his wife] are not wealthy. All of our friends own a yatch, but we don't".
- JumpCrisscross 5mo agoYup. The actual rich have this or that cabin in their private jets–my neighbour just rents his privatet jets, et cetera.
- littlexsparkee 5mo agoAre they guiding policy and making decisions at corporations or just living within the existing framework? He's talking about the people shaping the world and future.
- brewdad 5mo agoIn a global context, pretty much anyone on this site is a 10%er. Most of us are 1%ers.