Comment by 4c2383f5c88e911
9 years ago
Well, if you negate what "politics" mean and conflate it with the current politicians star-system, your reasoning holds.
Although I can raise doubts whether it has made the world better, it certainly has made many people rich, at the expense of others. What you said is very political, ironically.
Very solid points, totally agree.
That being said, I'm not sure about how discussing politics on HN would go. While I think it's essential to assess the political implications of any project, especially in CS where things go global real fast, it will be difficult (although interesting) to have meaningful interactions between people of wildly different viewpoints and axioms when decrypting reality.