Comment by dang

This seems way off base as a description of HN. The set of users here who are hiring personal protection staff with guns, or using offshore tax havens, surely has measure zero.

One of the most intriguing things about HN (to me) is what a big Rohrschach test it is. There are enough data points for people to read in whatever they choose to see for whatever reasons. I'm sure the rest of the internet is like this too, but when it's your job to focus hard and long on one corner of it, you become aware of this phenomenon much more acutely.