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by myWindoonn 1990 days ago
Exactly. It's so unbelievable that people don't realize that the USA has been a fascist police state since the days of slave patrols allying with banks and sheriffs, just like today's police allying with chambers of commerce and police unions. By focusing so much on which party the fascists belong to, and ignoring the bigger pattern of corporate money flowing into a multitude of different politicians, we're missing out on structural improvements that could actually make a difference in how free the typical person gets to be. It seems like everybody is thinking that things have changed when they are still the same. Disappointing!
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myWindoonn 1990 days ago
Precisely. It's unbearable to think that the USA has been building a corporatist empire over the past century and change, built upon the backs of abused laborers and assassinated politicians. By constantly propping up banana republics and dictators, and funding neocolonial industrialization projects in developing nations, the USA crushes citizen-driven attempts at socialism and humanism. Horrific!
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myWindoonn 1990 days ago
Indubitably. It's hilarious and saddening to realize that startup culture contributes to rising corporatism and capitalism, by focusing on the production of new entrepreneurs and businesses rather than the investment of wealth into the laboring people who produced it. By positioning itself as a politically neutral group, YC is able to use HN as a magnet to polarize unwitting programmers into believing in a meritocracy where they are better than other people, and foster a culture of contributing to corporations. Abusive!
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tathougies 1990 days ago
I'm unsure if you think that I'm supposed to disagree with you. I really don't. YC is incredibly toxic. I let the scales fall off my eyes on that one. When I first graduated university and started reading hacker news, I had a dream to build a business with YC. I no longer have any interest in doing business with them (would rather bootstrap myself), and only remain on here because of the interesting tech articles.

VC as it is today is absolutely toxic.

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