Hacker News Reader

I find the entire TP meme weird. On the one hand, it does provide an odd service to society and discourages hoarding for hoarding sake, but on the other, it seems to be posted by people, who did zero prep work. I am silently cheering on that shaming, but as memes goes, it is weird to watch it unfold.

View on HN

This "prep work" is selfish and irresponsible.

Supermarkets / grocery stores are not closing. There are no floods or storms or nuclear bombs falling, preventing people to go to supermarkets.

If many paranoid people start "prepping", they empty out essential stuff from the shelves. Then an older, poorer person, who is out of TP / canned food / etc. goes to the store and finds nothing there. That's honestly saddening.

This is a matter of altruism. Western countries, especially America, is thinking selfishly. I like capitalism, but this is a bad aspect of it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com