[mrmetanoia]

This site has a lot of interesting people that did and do interesting "hacker" type things that keep me coming back, but a lot of commenting is people looking to build things of questionable value, legality, or social good and sell them off and gtfo before the cracks show.

Less "Hacker" More "Greed via Computer" So the idea that they aren't bothered by Mr Beast's lack of integrity is because they too find deceit acceptable so long as they profit. Because, someone else before him did, so why shouldn't he? It's toxic greed all the way down in this view.

the bizarre social Darwinism nonsense that permeates the internet has done a nice job of taking this antisocial mindset - passersby at a glance recognize it quite rightly as the ideology of the asshole - and rebranded it as 'smart' and a mere recognition of the 'real world' (much to the confusion of people succeeding and enjoying the company of others doing so without robbing one another)

[seizethecheese]

Wait. You’re answering why this site is flooded with morale outrage with us vs them moral outrage?

[mrmetanoia]

Read it again slower ;) There's no outrage, and there's no us vs them. unless you identify personally with greed. I never thought of greed as a 'them' - are you a greed?

[troad]

Thank you for putting this in words; it's been rattling around in my head too.

I feel like the Peter Thiel world has eaten the Moxie Marlinspike world, and this is such a huge, monstrous loss for intellectual curiosity, individual liberty, and human flourishing.

[Jerrrrrrry]

the insightful intelligent discourse that this site's audience brings often lets the darker side of that blessing - resentment for the successful - to surface.

whether that is convenient altruism masquerading as a disdain for greed or sheer jealousy at their own lack of agency or fortuna or virtu is for their own ego to hopefully one day confront.

[robotstop]

I wonder if it would be possible to create a clone of HN without a pervasive reactionary tendency, and what you'd need to tweak to make that work.