alt Hacker NewsWhat if the intended takeaway was something else like this?
"Jumping so late onto the bandwagon by buying shares like that is for losers! Winners are people bold enough to be entrepreneurs who make the stuff and sell the shares. (Like I'm going to do, because I'm smarter than that crow.)"
I must warn that it isn't the most charitable random-ass-theory of a stranger's worldview... but it would resolve the apparent inconsistency.
We know what the intended takeaway is because the author helpfully explained it in a blog post [1], and it's way less cynical than what you guessed:
> A world where a majority of the population is suffering is not a world good for anyone. Even from a selfish perspective, does you making it into the elite class mean the people you care about will too? Who wants to eat caviar alone on the moon?
I agree, though I would have stopped at the first sentence.
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[1] https://www.jasonwu.ink/signals/2026-05-27-permanent-upper-c...