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> $300-400k in college tuition This is a ridiculous exaggeration.
Vanderbilt hit $100k recently, and most competitive schools cost over $75k. You don’t know when you’re 40 if your 5 year old is going to want to go to one of them.
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This crosses badly into personal attack and we ban accounts that do that, so please don't do it again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40314730 .
flandish has been consistently attacking others and posting trollish comments. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40289592 > it only makes you seem like the simp for profit piece of trash you are. Compared to above what you are pointing out here is mild.
As it happens, I banned both of those accounts elsewhere:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40314730
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40314726
If there's an assumption in your comment that moderation ought to be consistent, this is not possible because we can't moderate what we don't see, and we don't come close to seeing everything.
p.s. It looks like your account is still using HN primarily for political and ideological battle after we asked you to stop doing this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39700299. We ban accounts that continue to do this, so it would be good if you'd stop. For explanations about the principle involved here see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
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> the median European living standard Care to elaborate? What is so significantly better in the US?
How many thirtysomethings in Europe are considering retirement? (Whose parents couldn’t do the same.) I’m a bit of a mutt, but I hold Swiss and American citizenship. The European economic model is set up for stability, not massive accrual of wealth. One of the things that wealth lets you do is travel frequently to Europe, to see and experience its beautiful cities and culture. But in terms of living space, amenities,…
The rest of Europe is much more chill with work. There is also much better healthcare/insurance and retirement safety nets so maybe people done feel as much of an urge to quit early?
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flandish has been consistently attacking others and posting trollish comments. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40289592 > it only makes you seem like the simp for profit piece of trash you are. Compared to above what you are pointing out here is mild.
Sure—not every comment that breaks the site guidelines is equally bad, although if you take the context into account the GP comment was pretty vicious. As it happens, I banned both of those accounts elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40314730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40314726 If there's an assumption in your comment that moderation ought to be consistent, this is not possible because we can't…