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Also, please stop posting smug putdowns of others. Those are usually examples of the thing they're complaining about, and unsurprisingly they evoke worse from the others, who take the unfairness in them as an excuse to lash back.
We've had to ask you this kind of thing several times before. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
How obtuse are you? Of course I'm talking about working life. Survey data just reflects peoples' indoctrination anyway and getting anything through a dense American's head is nearly impossible if it involves imaginary 'freedom'. Makes sense when you fuck the whole world with imperialism, gotta justify it somehow.
> as opposed to just believing what you feel.
I've spent plenty of time reading 'serious' academics across all kinds of ideological lines. Esping-Andersen is not an absolute authority. America is still pathetic and broken no matter how you twist it. And yes, Europe is bad and we should off their billionaires too, not sure what you expect from me there.
> I love HN. I don't think there is any other place on the internet that has so many people who are both totally ignorant but believe they understand almost everything very very well. Classic engineer mindset.
And you're a bootlicking shit that is throating a combination of right-wing immigration policy and neoliberalism, so?
It also routinely ends up with poison like "How obtuse are you?" and, god help us, "you're a bootlicking shit". Since you're participating regularly here, I assume this is not the kind of place you want HN to be, so please don't make it so. The GP comment shouldn't have posted that smug and supercilious putdown, and you shouldn't be responding with even worse.
I don't want to ban you because you've also posted good comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22123132 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21818850. Unfortunately those are mixed in with personal attacks, petty swipes, and political boilerplate, and at this point the bad stuff grossly outweighs the good. You're doing a lot more damage than you're adding value at this point, so means we're going to have to ban you if you don't fix it. Please fix it.