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georgemcbaytoday at 1:22 AM1 replyview on HN

Alas Hacker News posters see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed trillionaires.


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incr_metoday at 1:38 AM

I've always heard "millionaires" (the quote was always apocryphal, anyways), and that belief is much less delusional than the belief that we're part of the proletariat, that class of workers who have nothing to lose but their chains. The vast majority of people here have lots to lose. These Blizzard workers, however miserable they are, have always had a staggering lot to lose, more than the proletariat could ever dream of possessing.

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