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It's not what the world needs right now

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Re: It's not what the world needs right now

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Post by badpun »

NoboruWataya wrote: post #27
codingdave wrote: post #14

The question I have not yet seen in the comments here is whether or not this post is real or fiction. Is it the journal of a questionable character, or a deliberate attempt to push people's buttons? And honestly, that is why I like it. I really hope it cannot be taken at face value - that would be disappointment.

Kinda gives me Bukowski vibes, like if Hank Chinaski had gone to art school.

Chinaski was working for a living, this guy would rather cheat and steal, as he thinks labor is beneath him (he described a regular cleaner's job as "demeaning").

Re: It's not what the world needs right now

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Post by badpun »

crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #18

Imagine writing something with such honesty & the people reading don't stop to reflect on how this is just one facet of how the systems they prop up push people into operating to survive. They just judge the person, as though they live in a vacuum.

Did the system somehow forced this man to avoid working for a living?

Re: It's not what the world needs right now

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Post by [deleted] »

platz wrote: post #90
reactus wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't say that. Stealing $4k is bad, but I can't say I hate the guy for it. It's not like he ran into the store with a machine gun and murdered the clerk to get the cash in the register. Also the suit anecdote could have been made up anyways.

is murder the only bad thing in your mind? can things be bad without being the worst possible thing? what i'm hearing: its bad but it's not bad because there are worse things that are bad and also I'm "looking the other way" whether or not it was made up was irrelevant to your initial claim. the proposition is identical in either case.

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Re: It's not what the world needs right now

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pyrophane wrote: post #77
dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #63

The fact that so many people on HN dislike this proves hacker culture died in programming..

I read HN almost daily and comment here often, but I don't like the name. I wish they'd chosen to call it something more like "startup news" instead, as that feels like a more accurate representation of the site and its community and standards.

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Re: It's not what the world needs right now

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Post by codingdave »

rootusrootus wrote: post #70
codingdave wrote: post #14

The question I have not yet seen in the comments here is whether or not this post is real or fiction. Is it the journal of a questionable character, or a deliberate attempt to push people's buttons? And honestly, that is why I like it. I really hope it cannot be taken at face value - that would be disappointment.

> whether or not this post is real or fiction Well, he has one other post on the same site that is explicitly marked fiction, where this one is not. That may be a clue.

Maybe - this is clearly someone who enjoys blurring the line between reality and fiction, so a their tagging of their own work might be equally blurry.

Re: It's not what the world needs right now

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Post by noobermin »

platz wrote: post #76
spdif899 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

generally yea there's also a big difference between "one guy supposedly stealing one thing as a part of a story" and "let's all go steal"

when you consider morality, do you think your rule only ever applies to one person or categorically?

No one other than Kant (and really, kant's own delusions about himself) are deontological ethicists. Everyone has exceptions where they think the right thing is context dependent

Re: It's not what the world needs right now

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Post by bsder »

jyunwai wrote: post #31

Most other comments so far have viewed this artist's lifestyle negatively, as he wrote that he got by via abusing various policies and tax fraud (via "[hallucinating] a DJ software skin" to claim as a business expense). But he's an interesting person for sticking to his craft for close to a decade now: he has persisted in working hard to produce artwork and submit it for exhibition. However, to what extent is this li…

It's pretty sad, actually, how much negative vibe is here.

This man is hustle culture personified. What's the problem?

Alternatively, he's the epitome of a "disruptor". What's the issue?

Oh, perhaps it's that he's holding up a light at what is at the end of the tunnel if we keep going the way society is--complete instability for the peons who are completely at the whim of a small number of the rich.

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