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by arcticbull 1944 days ago
It's amazing how otherwise brilliant folks get caught up in this anarchocapitalist conspiracy theory mumbo jumbo.

There's a few bits of plumbing in this world you'd do best to familiarize yourself with so you can raise your socioeconomic stature with maximum efficiency, economics is one of them. I only tilt at them because I hope that they'll benefit from an understanding of how these things work in reality.
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remedialhedge 1944 days ago
It is strange, but I think it makes sense culturally. HN grew out of that particular libertarian, anti-establishment "hacker" subculture, where it is very common to believe that the government and etc. is out to screw you. Rather than like, the government is also made up of people, the same kind of smart, educated people that might otherwise have worked at your startup, and the reason most of them chose to go into government is because they think that problems like macroeconomics and public finance and etc. are interesting.

But no, us tech dweebs are the righteous little guys fighting back against the rigged system, man!

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arcticbull 1944 days ago
Very true. I also wonder if it has to do with folks in high school and college just not having money, so why bother paying attention to ECON material? It's all abstract.

It's like the Futurama joke from Future Stock:

  “Oh my god! I’m a millionaire! Suddenly, I have an opinion on the capital gains tax!”
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phabora 1943 days ago
That’s the stupidest theory I’ve heard this week. This is a forum hosted by a startup accelator where programmers and founders (as well as other professionals) gather. It’s not exactly a hippie resort.

Libertarians are also the most ideologically pro-capitalist people that one is likely to meet.

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arcticbull 1940 days ago
> That’s the stupidest theory I’ve heard this week. This is a forum hosted by a startup accelator where programmers and founders (as well as other professionals) gather. It’s not exactly a hippie resort.

True, though I suspect that happened after they left high school.

> Libertarians are also the most ideologically pro-capitalist people that one is likely to meet.

A study shows a quarter of libertarians don't know what libertarianism is heh. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_in_the_United_S...

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