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HN has a really strong "rich people bad" attitude coming up lately (~ since the last US election) which is also prevalent on sites like Reddit. On the other hand HN is the site where I think probably most commenters are in the top 1% in the US by salary [1]. It's a really strange phenomenon and as an outsider it's also interesting to observe.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/07/01/how-much-you-...

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It's not just HN and reddit. It's anyone who's not living alone in the woods. Class consciousness is thankfully becoming more prevalent, and these days how could you not notice: the rich get richer, the 99% is worse off, the planet is being destroyed, there's no accountability, and electoralism is failing.

There's a large swath of pro-capitalism sentiment on HN because it's overwhelmed with people who've "won" the game at the expense of everyone else. I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't thousands of millionaires that read this site at least once a week.

You think most californian commenters on hn make more than $659k a year? Hmm.

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