[myWindoonn]

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!

[tathougies]

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.