I know this place calls itself Hacker News, but to me being a hacker always had a countercultural element, a distrust of power structures. This place is the power structure and reinforces it...
Looking at the recent post about small shops on English high streets, it seems like the only thing people on here hate more than poor people is children.
You can't live in a city filled with billionaires, see people every day sleeping on the street because rent is too high and go on without picking a side. Most HN types don't want to lose their comfortable position and they're scared socialism will take it away no matter how many times everyone explains why that's not true.
Their dream in life is to become a founder and CEO who can look down on everyone. Getting rich is not enough. They want power and they don't want to share it. That's where the antisocial and fascist ideas come from.