To me the entire Hacker Ethos, Culture, and quite possibly the majority of its inhabitants are here today for the same reasons I am here today. Try to imagine a

To me the entire Hacker Ethos, Culture, and quite possibly the majority of its inhabitants are here today for the same reasons I am here today. Try to imagine an alternate history where the Fascists controlled Europe. Look around. Do you see you colleagues and customers? Would there be a Silicon Valley? What would America be like? The question of fighting for true freedom and equality is deeply connected with the motivations behind startups and hacking in my brain. That's why I posted it here but not on reddit. update: In the USA it is Veteran's Day, not Remembrance Day. So there has been quite a bit of discussion here about thanking living veterans and veterans of all wars, some of which are controversial. But my post thanked an unnamed soldier who died in a conflict where we were fighting for human justice. I had WWII in my mind when I wrote it very specifically. Even if you disagree whether it belongs on HN, I hope you now understand why I thought the question of what our world would be like had Fascism prevailed and who would or wouldn't be here and who would or wouldn't fraternize with each other would be "Of interest to Hackers." pax.