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Yea, I have friends who work at SpaceX and seems to be doing just fine. The zeitgeist on HN is basically if you ever do anything challenging, don't even think about it, it is bad for your mental health. You probably should just concede in life, don't work hard, regress into resentment for "rich people" and make sure no one else succeeds.

What kind of a shitty place has this become? Supposed to be "Hacker News". Not a whole lot of hackers here.

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This tells me you’ve never worked 80 hour weeks.

I wish I could deanonymize myself, @dang probably knows who I am. I hold 2 jobs. So, sorry, you're wrong.

It's says something when the greatest living hacker, George Hotz, now wants to work at Twitter. But so many of the readers of "hacker news" can't even imagine why.

John Carmack is still probably the greatest living hacker.

I stand corrected.

John Carmack on hard work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJitSreSL78

I can't see this going well on HN if he said the same thing, verbatim, but posted it as an anonymous comment.

That's because unlike anonymous commenters like you and I, he has actually substantiated his beliefs.

I really don't think that's the case here. Most beliefs that align with "hard work" is often touted as "Fascism". That's what we're dealing with here.

I've been searching for last few years, I read HN every day and haven't found anyone pro-hard work and celebrating perseverence.

There's literally an Ask HN on the front page right now about the most impactful thing readers have built with like 300 comments. Hard to believe that such a thread isn't celebrating hard work and perseverance.

Perhaps people are tired of being told "hard work is its own reward" from people who are extremely rewarded with money and a suspicious lack of hard work.

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