> I'm (perhaps naively) shocked at how opposed to this people are (...) especially on HN. This community was founded on startup ideals of trying radical ideas (...)

Trying radical ideas does not equate turning off your critical thinking.

Also, if you are the one with radical idea, do not look for a group of people that will approve anything. It is pretty poor way to test your idea.

> Anyone who claims to definitively know that this idea would have problematic (...) results is kidding themselves.

Oh, let me think about it. Pay couple thousand to skip couple of hours of interview to get a job that pays many times more per month.

Definitely nobody will want to exploit that.