[happytoexplain]

Meta's morality aside, it's so strange seeing bitterness about software salaries on HN - very crabs-in-a-pot. Especially considering that the vast, vast majority of software jobs don't enable a life of luxury due to differences in COL.

Instead of insisting that more businesses should share enough profit to enable more people to live the Little American Dream (have a small home, small family, somewhere reasonably nice), we say the opposite, "No. People currently achieving that need to give it up." The bar is so low that this is what counts as "spoiled".

[Esophagus4]

You’re making this about a lot more than my comment.

[lisper]

Check your interlocutor's user name and it will make more sense.

[happytoexplain]

I had picked that name just wanting a polite, harmless phrase - and then I realized it could have a negative connotation of being a know-it-all (I'm probably in the bottom 5% of "knowing things" among HN users), exacerbated by the rise of complaints about "mansplaining". Oh well.

[TrnsltLife]

"mansplaining" is an attack by toxic femininity on the normative state of affairs that men like talking about facts and the physical world and how things work. It's just another instance of womanplaining (from "complaining") and name calling, really, and "oh well" is probably a pretty good response.

Just thinking about it some more, maybe "womplaining" is pithier and has a better ring to it.

[happytoexplain]

Yes, I'm commenting on a trend that I believed your comment was a part of based on your implications (implying something like "maybe you don't deserve what you've been getting"; and downplaying the impact of loss of income). Sorry if I'm wrong.