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HN loves drama. Any David vs Goliath story (small time blogger/designer gets ripped off by big corp, someone gets treated wrong by authority figure) gets huge a
by nether 13y ago
HN loves drama. Any David vs Goliath story (small time blogger/designer gets ripped off by big corp, someone gets treated wrong by authority figure) gets huge amounts of attention even though it's insignificant on the whole, and hardly "deeply interesting."
- alexqgb 13y agoNot just HN. Americans in general. And of course, the very paradigm you cite (David & Goliath) is Biblical, meaning it's been popular for at least 2,500 years, give or take. Humans are confident, fighty creatures who like to beat the odds. Or at least, they like to think of themselves in this way.