[dang]

I hear you, but your comment doesn't intersect with mine. I wasn't expressing a view about Andreessen et. al. at all - only about the GP comment type.

The point would be the same if you swapped any other individuals in for those 5.

[frm88]

Let me try one last time to get my point across, I'm an ESL, so maybe I was phrasing this wrong. It's not about those 5 or another 5. It's about how wealth negatively influences compassion, empathy and overall behaviour. There are scientific studies on that topic:

Rich less empathetic than poor, study says https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/rich-less-empathet...

How Wealth Reduces Compassion https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduce...

If you go along the donor list and search for remarks the biggest political donors have made you'll note that most of them are severely lacking in the 'how-to-human' department.

These are the people buying your politics. I still maintain that GP's assessment stands.

As for the comment type, there's nothing disparaging or even insulting about it. I don't know whether GP is a native English speaker, but as an ESL I can't find anything generalising or otherwise wrong with it. I have flagged a lot of comments for posters calling others Nazis or other insults or getting personal and I'm absolutely sure a lot remain. I have no feeling what kinds of failure you're reacting to here and this is grounds for general insecurity.