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Comment by ethanbond | Hacker News Reader

No need to call anyone sheep for having jobs to feed themselves and their families.

It’s more like cattle if you’ve ever been on the tube at rush hour, waiting for train after train because it’s so full, to hopefully end up in someone’s armpit, 20 metres underground. There was the adage that Animal Welfare regulations would not allow this to happen. Central Line in the summer.

OP is presumably offering a characterisation, probably accurate, of the office management companies' thinking.

The fact that people are feeding themselves and their families is irrelevant. They're still doing something in a flock like a flock of sheep.

Is voting acting like a flock of sheep? Would sitting on a Jury be similar? Your view is terribly offensive.

To us or the flock? We are animals, analogies using other animals shouldn't be taken so heavy? Bring any herder to the city and see if he finds a difference.

"Flock to the polls" is a common phrase in headlines. So that’s some evidence that others see voting as flock behavior. I don’t think I’ve ever seen “flock to the jury boxes” though.

For whatever reason when I see a “flock to” headline I think of birds, not sheep. Specifically I think of flamingos.

The wording is maybe a bit off, but the point about a media campaign is spot on. To quote Karl Marx: "The Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent."

For example:

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/richard-littlej...

I think it’s worth asking what even is the monarchy? You’ll find your answer right there.

They’re landlords. Extracting ground rent from some of the most valuable land on the planet for generations, which has made that family a supranational entity even as nation states rise around it.

It always comes back to land. It has since the advent of agriculture: he who owns the land owns everything.