[benreesman]

It’s a lot of very bright folks on HN, and very well read.

But this stuff at this stage of the game is somewhere between propaganda and Stockholm’s Syndrome.

Hackers have never been paid less, or had worse job security, or been more subject to being fucked with than in decades.

Getting funding or traction or press or customers has never been more insular and nepotistic and corrupt and numb in decades.

There is a season for de Montaigne and there is a season for Thomas Paine.