average education and pay have nothing to do with it. a lot of hn users are bazingapilled techno-opportunists.

climate breakdown confronts two axioms for what is probably a sizable userbase of this site:

- nothing (bad) ever (really) happens

- advancement of technology and industry solves all problems

they have no incentive to be any other way. because of the high pay and education, most of these people will be able to live comfortably within the confines of the global north and presumably wealthy nation-state for the rest of their lives.