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Re: Elite social media

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Post by Buge »

ThomPete wrote: post #11

I am a member of Erik Wachtmeister first company A Small World I haven't logged in for ages heard they now charge. This sounds exactly the same and will probably fail for exactly the same issues. A lot of the people aren't really "1 percenters" at all but rather people who live of the "1 percenters" and so the benefits one ends up getting unless they are trying to make money on these people are easy to overlook. A mu…

Are 1%ers really that rare or special?

There are 3 million of them in the US.

Re: Elite social media

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Post by gumby »

smacktoward wrote: post #40
gumby wrote: post #10

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> BOAWs website doesn't look all that great + their iOS apps haven't been updated in 2+ years. I'm not saying it couldn't be an amazing community, but unless someone jumps in here and tells me they're a user and it's amazing, I'd be suspicious. I agree, but consider the Vertu phones: really shitty old Nokias caked in diamonds. Even once modern smartphones came out they continued to sell $20K feature phones -- and som…

The stereotype has always been that you can tell the nouveau riche by the sheer volume of gaudy "luxury" goods they drape themselves in, while old money prefers pedigree to ostentation.

Or plenty of well of people just don't care (and lack a "pedigree"). But your point is correct.

My GF had a visitor from Hollywood during the Super Bowl week end. Said friend was shocked that nobody had bodyguards or drove those fancy looking cars like they have in Hollywood. She was shocked when I introduced her to a couple of billionaires at the sports bar during the game: they were wearing basically the same clothes as everybody else.

(I was shocked that they were there too -- I would have no interest in a sports bar during the Super Bowl except for the entertainment of said house guest).

Re: Elite social media

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Post by ben_jones »

dasil003 wrote: post #21
ben_jones wrote: post #13

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Have you seen many of the discussions around tools like Javascript, Golang, Django, Docker? Quite often they devolve into tiny opinionated nuances and you have to pull your head out of your laptop and ask yourself "what year is it??"

What does the year have to do with it? Given any geeky subject there are going to be strong opinions, always has been that way and always will be, we just couldn't see the artifacts of it as easily before the internet. Not all the discussion on HN will be useful, but it's the highest signal to noise I've found in 30 years of participating in internet fora, at least for a group of this size.

I meant it in the sense of "oh god I just spent 40 minutes reading a circular argument".

Re: Elite social media

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Post by balladeer »

dsacco wrote: post #38
gumby wrote: post #8

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> Moral of the story: rich people will always want to show off that they are rich. I think you mean, "Some rich people are insecure enough that they want to show off that they are rich." Amex caters to this very well: they play the whole "prestige" thing but if you have a "higher-level" card for the benefits (platinum, black) they are happy to issue you an ordinary green one you can use so people won't guess your wea…

You really don't need to be wealthy to get a platinum card. You don't even need to be breaking six figures. You just need a good credit score. That perception is all hype.

That's how it is here in India. They tried pushing it like "prestige", didn't work. Now they just give it to anyone with a half decent salary and a willingness to be okay with the annual fee.

Re: Elite social media

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Post by hammock »

dingaling wrote: post #20

It's not quite 'elite' but The Well is a fairly exclusive and well-connected social network, which has been running online for over 30 years now: https://www.well.com/join.html I dabbled in it a couple of decades ago when there was a special-offer for a month's membership, it was certainly highbrow compared to Usenet at the time. $150 is a fair chunk of cash for a year's membership, but does keep the rabble out whils…

What do you get out of it? What type of people?

Re: Elite social media

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Post by Kalium »

I had a brush with Ivy.com at one point. It was an art show. It was an interesting experience, but mostly it was full of the kind of socialite-types I am not particularly interested in associating with.

The problem with elite social events is that they're full of the kind of people who value being at elite social events.

Re: Elite social media

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Post by danielvf »

closeparen wrote: post #24
tjalfi wrote: post #14

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The book the Miliionaire Next Door[0] is full of counterexamples. ( http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stanley-millionaire.htm... ) Edited to add the following paragraph. The child post accurately points out that these families are not in the 1%.

The Millionaire Next Door isn't about the elite, it's about responsible late-career middle class families who have followed entirely standard middle class practices like going to college, saving for their children's college funds, owning their primary residences, and saving ~15% for retirement every year. A family at median household income ($51k) that mortgaged a median-priced home ($180k) and saved 15% for retireme…

Pro tip: Symphonies price segment like crazy. Except the cheap seats are pretty good. A couple can usually go to a symphony for about the same cost as movie tickets plus movie theater snacks.

Re: Elite social media

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Post by arcanus »

krapp wrote: post #35
ucontrol wrote: post #34

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It's so odd to see mentions of Internet memes and casual cyberculture on HN of all places.

It shouldn't be, it's obvious whenever a story about 4chan or Reddit (or even Voat or 8chan) come up, that there's a significant overlap in the membership. Hacker News doesn't exist in a vacuum. Yes there are a few erudite intellectuals, brilliant greybeards, and SV millionaires knocking about, but there are plenty of scrubs here as well (present company included.)

> Yes there are a few erudite intellectuals, brilliant greybeards, and SV millionaires knocking about, but there are plenty of scrubs here as well (present company included.)

Nor are those categories mutually exclusive...

Re: Elite social media

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Post by rmason »

charlesdm wrote: post #2

BOAWs website doesn't look all that great + their iOS apps haven't been updated in 2+ years. I'm not saying it couldn't be an amazing community, but unless someone jumps in here and tells me they're a user and it's amazing, I'd be suspicious.

When the founder said that he didn't want any more members I took it as a dare for people to apply. Bottom line is that was a desperate call for more members.

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member"

- Groucho Marx

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