> a ... quote that summarizes to nothing more than "rich people are evil"
But that isn't at all what the quote says, that's what you attributed to it.
But that isn't at all what the quote says, that's what you attributed to it.
Perhaps that's what the HN audience really thinks of rich people and thus skipped that point? Someone thinking they are better than others based on wealth alone is an unmistakable negative in my book.
Personally I think both extremes are terrible, but leaning on the side of cynicism seems safer.
"soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful"
In other words, how they are different from others. Not that they are fundamentally soft, cynicalm or bad.
Having different values from "you and me" doesn't make people evil.
For most of history, it (mostly erroneously) did. In 2019, this also applies. It's just applied much faster over global distances through the Internet.