Can we not turn Hacker News into a cut-rate Reddit? The world has enough outlets for endless culture war.
It's a slippery slope, but more and more the politics that has completely devoured American culture is beginning to consume this site as well. I am completely sympathetic to the idea that inequality is a problem, but HN used to be one of the few sites with substantive discussions that you could get away from politics. It's still mostly that, but that has been slipping away over the last few months. And that is a genuine tragedy in an angry and divided world.
Like it or not, the tech sector does not operate in a vacuum. What the tech sector enables, and how it concentrates wealth, has consequences for all of society. Anyone who is connected to the tech industry, as an investor or employee, has a social obligation to be aware of the externalities created by this industry.
No one gets to mix paint thinner into the office coffee and then cry 'stop playing office politics' when they get called on it.
It seems like a discussion of the world and what is happening. There is some reporting on the distribution of incomes. Those facts don't seem like they are meant to embroil us in cultural conflict though.