They didn't say they have no time for reading. Anyone with a modern phone and a lunch break can post to HN from work.
What they said was:
> reading alone in a room on a couch is a rare indulgence
What they said was:
> reading alone in a room on a couch is a rare indulgence
> Time for reading is a privilege. Only those with "normal" jobs have the stability and time to associate rituals with reading.
Virtually everyone has time to read, even if it's 5-10 minutes between shifts. Whatever time you spend reading or posting on HN could be spent reading a book, which is not to say that it should be, only that this "time for reading is a privilege" stuff is nonsense.