Comment by erikb
9 years ago
Your comment is political. It adds a point of view to the discussion about politics in HN. It also tries to achieve something (talking about ETHICS). This is politics. No need to talk how US government politics is different from Russian government politics. We can just talk about our politics here.
If you take such a broad definition of "politics", then the word becomes meaningless, since everything is "politics".
'jacquesm wrote about politics as in what politicians in the governments do. This is a particular thing, and I personally believe it's rarely useful to discuss it on HN.
No, eating a cake is not politics. Buying a cake may be though.
How would you call this thing that is there when multiple people interact with each other?
PS: This interpretation of the word "politics" isn't mine. I try to bring you closer to what the author is talking about.