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serf • today at 1:02 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

So you don't think the world's most powerful and richest people engage in infidelity more often than the guy that cleans the toilets at the local gas station?

every argument that attempts to humanize and 'us too' these types of folks (billionaires that own islands and ultra-yachts) totally bewilders me.


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therealdrag0 • today at 3:26 AM

My dad cheated while working at a magnesium plant as a blue collar worker. Theory is one thing evidence another. Do you have any evidence?

Barrin92 • today at 1:33 AM

about 30-50% of people across cultures self-report infidelity. I grew up in a neighborhood where people had jobs like cleaning toilets and it's pretty difficult to cheat more than what I saw growing up. I can tell you from first hand that economically downward communities aren't known for their stable families

the thing that's stopping Joe from the gas station is that he lacks the yacht and the credit line, not any ethics. Jensen's no more or less human than anyone else. The issue with megacorporation's is structural, not some "these types of people' provincial nonsense