Personally I am surprised how anti-billionaire HN is given its run by a venture capital company and its aim is (indirectly, through reputation building and PR), to get wanna be billionaires to raise capital from them.
replyIt's partly explained by all the non-US contributors here. That's my theory.
replyOf course, billionaires are unpopular even in the US. Yet, as sparsely attended at that (earnest!) pro-billionaire protest in San Francisco was, I find it totally unimaginable that that could happen anywhere outside the US.
Most software developers are not founders, but they like to hang out here for the news and community anyway. It used to be a lot more libertarian back when I joined (even more so when I only occasionally lurked) but things have shifted rather dramatically over time.
replyI don't think this forum has significant costs of running, especially considering it is not in development.
replyThey switched the backend to Common Lisp in 2019, and at the time had two seperate Arc-to-JS compilers in development. [0]
replyThe site may feel less changeable than many, but I would be very surprised if it is not "in-development".
It employs two full–time moderators.
replyIt didn’t use to be this way but through evaporative cooling, most of the founder types stopped posting here.
replyCan you explain the connection to evaporative cooling?
replyIt refers to evaporative cooling of group belief - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporativ...
replyall that said.. most of the clothes are not so "branded"? Who cares if a GAP or something ends up in outlet or wherever..
replyI am not against this in spirit but what are the higher order effects and unintended consequences?
replyThe only thing that is more annoying to me than market fundamentalist, neo-liberal bullshit is emotional appeals that sound right on paper but have a total disregard for higher order effects and unintended consequences.
Why would it require becoming a billionaire to benefit? A lot of big companies are able to purchased by the public. There are even fractional shares which lowers the bar even further in being able to get exposure to these companies.
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