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I don't understand how this could've got to the front page. It was written in 2011. Why front page today? Is this genuinely a popular idea or is HN being man

by maxk42 12y ago

I don't understand how this could've got to the front page. It was written in 2011. Why front page today? Is this genuinely a popular idea or is HN being manipulated somehow?

maxk42 12y ago
Hacker News is a site full of entrepreneurs extolling the virtues of hard work and doing four years' work in one year's time -- how can this be so popular?
- zenogais 12y ago
  Perhaps Hacker News is more diverse than you suspect.
- proksoup 12y ago
  The people working for those entrepreneurs are perhaps less keen on those virtues.
- michaelchisari 12y ago
  Because Hacker News is also filled with software engineers, and we know better than most that automation is going to force us all, as a society, to philosophize about work and the nature and purpose of it all.
- dreamfactory2 12y ago
  An entrepreneur by definition doesn't believe in being a wage slave