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Comment by thoughtexplorer | Hacker News Reader

Slow down there Critical Thinker. You can't consider such fundamental questions while creating clickbait.

How is this clickbait? Neither the headline not the article allege any anomaly or misdeeds. It's basic, factual reporting.

How is it not? There is definitely an implication...they even discuss the legality of it. Amazon employees have purchased hundreds of thousands of pieces of real estate over the years, how many articles were published discussing individual transactions?

"Apple Employees buy a home in SJC before iPhone launch" "Goldman Sachs Employee buys home in TriBeCa during bonus season" is not something you read regularly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/business/that-line-at-the...

I think "Line at the Ferrari dealer" is pure clickbait.

Additionally, this is talking about a macro trend across an industry, while the current article is talking about 2 employees out of hundreds of thousands.

The article from 15 years ago is also not discussing the legality.

It's kind of like yelling "Fire!" in a building, only to say "surely there's a fire somewhere in the city".

Or like yelling “Fire! Run!” because there is a fire in the fireplace.

So your case is they are stating the obvious? And that now qualifies as news worthy of publication? And they're publishing it not as a (meaningless) public service but because they know ppl will click to read it.

I trust you can do the math from here.

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