Comment by happytoexplain
8 hours ago
There was never a mask. People have always cared more about their own country than their supposed political party.
If you made assumptions that turned out to be wrong, that might look like a "mask".
8 hours ago
There was never a mask. People have always cared more about their own country than their supposed political party.
If you made assumptions that turned out to be wrong, that might look like a "mask".
This is not caring about their country, this is caring about their paycheck. They want higher salaries, damned' be what it does to competitiveness. It's nearsighted protectionism, that's what it is.
> They want higher salaries, damned' be what it does to competitiveness.
You're advocating against people seeking higher salaries because that hurts competitiveness? That is competitive behavior in a nutshell.
It's local maxima vs global maxima. Or 10% of small pie vs 1% of big pie, etc. More to the parent's point though, HN demographics have changed just like all other social media. It's not the SF Bay area tech scene anymore; it's a global townsquare like x.com. So it's hard to separate the signal from the noise.