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Comment by mrjaeger | Hacker News Reader

Why was this not submitted under it's original title "The Economy Is Full of Crypto (And Collective Delusion)"? The submitted title is wildly misleading, as the author is not arguing generally that finance has become untethered from productive work, but that this has become the case for certain crypto related use cases.

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It was, but a mod changed it to the subtitle. That's a standard practice when an article's title is baity and its subtitle less so. Unfortunately this time the subtitle was misleading.

The real problem though is that the article itself is pretty fluffy, below the author's usual standard. I don't think there's much to gratify intellectual curiosity here, or news that there's a cryptocurrency craze. All this has been discussed on HN well past the point where we just recycle.

I'd go for changing the title. I agree that finance has become untethered from productive work, but that happened a long time ago, when derivatives became bigger than their underlying asset categories. This article isn't about that.

I wouldn't exactly characterize it as misleading -- "Finance has become untethered from productive work" is the subtitle.

The subtitle is misleading out of context. The actual title is far more representative of the article.

Probably because it is clickbait and that is one of the reasons the guidelines asks you to change the title instead. Using a non clickbait subtitle is pretty common in such cases.

The replacement title is, if anything, even more clickbaity than the original.

On the bright side, you can immediately tell in the comments here who didn't read this article since the title is so vapid and misleading.

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