Please. Enough with the essayists who don't understand something feeling free to wave their hands around as if they had something interesting to say. As anothe

Please. Enough with the essayists who don't understand something feeling free to wave their hands around as if they had something interesting to say. As another commentator pointed out, the role of banking and the state has fuck-all to do with socialism. This is click-bait intellectual junk food. It's the third article in as many days on the front page of HN where the author has no idea what he's talking about. (There were probably more. I only clicked on a couple each day.) Yes, I understand if you squint your eyes the right way "socialism" can be damned near anything. But I fail to see why yet another argument on the definition of socialism interest me as a hacker. Or a discussion about state-run banks that's framed in idiotic terms. If there was something redeemable here, I'd let it go. Hell I'm extremely liberal about topics on HN. I think we can take on just about anything as long as we're civil. But I feel that this kind of stuff, where the subject and title are spun in such a way purposely drive out criticism about things we will never agree on? It just tears communities apart. It does not help build them.