Comment by ianai
7 years ago
Discussing economics is off topic in a business merger? Its completely on topic. Economics is literally the study of scarce resource allocation. In the US, that’s everything from personal choice, business operations, through to global considerations.
To quote the dictionary “a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services”
It’s my understanding that HN is for technical discussions and business discussions. That’s exactly what my comment discussed. Further, that book by Galbraith is widely considered the gold standard for the Great Depression.
TLDR: if you want hacker news to be taken seriously as a place to discuss business and tech then my comment is appropriate in a merger discussion.
It's off topic because generic ideological discussions are always the same. When something is that predictable, it adds no new information, cannot gratify curiosity, and therefore doesn't meet the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.