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Comment by runarberg | Hacker News Reader

My answer, as always, is: Organize as workers against our capitalist exploiters, and overthrow this system of capitalism in favor of a system which rewards us workers for the wealth we create and not our capitalist exploiters who’s only contribution is rent seeking on the wealth we create.

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Capitalist countries are the ones with the highest standards of living, and formerly communist countries like China gained immense wealth with pro-market reforms, so perhaps the reason people on HN may not support a revolution is that they're actually more informed on this inconvenient reality than you assume.

The market reforms got China’s GDP from 1000 CNY to 7000. The communist reforms got China’s literacy rate from 20% to 80%.

I know you capitalist love money more then anything, but the rest of use like to live healthy lives and enjoy things like good books and spending time with our friends and family.

> but the rest of use like to live healthy lives and enjoy things like good books and spending time with our friends and family

If you're in the U.S., what's stopping you from doing that? Some of my coworkers in tech retired to the country, raise their own chickens, goats, grow their own food and are all on solar. They seem to be loving their life.

What is stopping most of us? I suspect it is not winning the start-up/ipo lottery.

> overthrow this system of capitalism in favor of a system which rewards us workers

This time it will be different.

They call them revolutions because they come round full circle.

...and yet you're hanging out on a messageboard that's operated by a VC firm for commercial reasons.

What precisely are you accusing them of? As a gesture of good-faith, I'll put my subtext-cards down on the metaphorical table first: I believe the quippy-looking retort is actually a dud once we open it up and look inside.

For example, is it one of these?

1. "Being a regular here necessarily means you cannot actually have that opinion, so you are lying to us."

2. "You may believe that, but posting it here is not logical because nobody here will be receptive to it."

3. "You may believe that, but posting it here is an immoral offense against the management."

Everything on this board is controlled for the purpose of making billionaires richer. None of your three things are true. Here's 4: "the fact that you are posting about the revolution on Make Billionaires Richer Inc and not on Anarchist Graffiti Dot Onion is a sign that the billionaires have thoroughly won and the revolution will not happen"

The revolution won‘t happen on Hacker News, that is for sure. However, Hacker News is one of the biggest social platform of tech workers, and GGP might not like it, but when so many workers in a single industry come together, there will be solidarity, particularly against our bosses. And among workers in any industry there is always a radical (usually me) talking about the revolution.

I'm not accusing anyone of anything. I'm pointing out an irony that amuses me.

From the anger in the replies perhaps it touched a nerve, eh?

The only anger I am sensing in the replies, and the only anger I feel towards your post, is about the cliché debate tactic “posted on an iPhone ... gotcha”.

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

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