[eo3x0]

There’s a lot of negativity towards capitalism here in this thread which is hard for me to understand when the average Hacker News user is upper middle class chatting away on social media in the middle of a work day. It seems like capitalism has done exactly a great job in lifting people out of poverty and continues to do so.

A lot of the negativity simply comes from being detached from real problems, in my opinion.

[jamiek88]

Or maybe we don’t want to pull the ladder up after us and a lot of us came from poverty too and remember it and have empathy with those still there?

[ramphastidae]

Being able to use social media during the work day doesn’t make housing or health care any more affordable. Don’t those count as real problems?

[t-3]

I've got no idea about the general demographics of the site, but I for one am here in the middle of the day because I'm unemployed, not because I'm well-off.

[rightbyte]

A study in bourgeois identity crisis. "Anti-work anti-Caren" sentiment. Some Reddit meme I believe.