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>In the end I ended up cured of most forms of political fundamentalism. Yes! The only cure to social issues is applied intelligence. We should treat governing, policy, economy, and…

I don't like Ayn Rand either and I think libertarians are complete morons. I'm a socialist. I just think anyone who would consent to such unfair job conditions must be an idiot.

I'm not a libertarian. I'm a socialist. But I understand your frustration with Ayn Randists.

Wouldn't a smart student realize that they can't trust their Professors? If you can't spot a dishonest salespitch from an academic, doesn't that make you gullible? Smart people mak…

My thesis is that people who are this naive and manipulable are not actually that smart. But I do get your point and have lived it and seen it first hand. Having said that.. I trul…

Would your smartest citizens really make such dumb life choices? My professors pushed me so hard to get on the grad school track. I was too smart to do something so stupid. Profess…

Household income is not the metric being used. It is income associated with a particular occupation that is used to class order those occupations. I guess you're right about failin…

You're reading way too far into it... I never said greybeards are "mean", I said they are influential. Greybeards are more influential on Zuck than vice versa when it comes to tech…

Most educated? Yes. Most intelligent? No. Smart people have been shunning science and academia since the 90s. The best and brightest work on Wall Street and they do tend to have ki…

I'm not contradicting your observations. I'm pointing out a sociological fact. You do not know the definition of lower middle class. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_middle_class…

Millenials do not have a choice between "elite social status" and "comfortable middle class". They have a choice between middle class and lower class. What you are calling elite is…

Linus' beard maybe isn't yet long enough to count as "grey" but, in any case, he's not a millenial. He entered the field circa 1990, whereas this self-proclaimed greybeard author s…

As a millenial who is very familiar with capitalist exploitation of myself and my peers, I am 100% in favor of unionization, regulation, and association. It's the boomer and Gen X …

Zuckerberg dances to the tune of the greybeards just as I do. Did Zuckerberg code the backend of facebook? Hell no. He hired people to do it. What programming technologies did thos…

Linus is 45 years old. He's not a millenial, he's a greybeard. Zuckerberg never made any technological advances. His company was a market success but it was based on LAMP... nothin…

Good lord! Don't confuse envy with hatred. I don't hate old people, I envy them! I envy Wedge Martin who got into tech in a time when it was professionally acceptable and viable to…

Blaming this on millenials rather than the training they receive by employers and professors is insane. I would love to dig down into every nuance and detail. I don't have time for…

Young people, new programmers, and other groups who have no power are not responsible for the nature of a field. Old people control the nature of every field. Old greybeards are th…

It's insane to think that the least powerful members of a field are the ones controlling it. Is the medical field controlled by medical students, or by 60 year old medical authorit…

So to summarize... a man born into privilege is annoyed by poor people. The guy equates working for a paycheck with entitlement... how out of touch can you be? Working for a payche…