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Comment by Cthulhu_ | Hacker News Reader

Same, but I keep reminding me that I grew up with different interests and a different set of skill sets. Web development and the like sounds boring in comparison though.

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And maybe these guys would have trouble delivering week after week productive changes in a system used for important things by important people.

After all, all this genius did is open a nintendo switch to eventually run software made by you for free. The contrary of productive work I d say and close to parasitism.

Or so you can tell yourself when you feel down :D

I think that allowing me to run whichever software I choose, on a device I paid lots of money for is, is a great service to society. Essentially the exact opposite of parasitism, especially considering these people are doing it for free.

The trillion dollar question is how to get rid of parasitic corporations (capitalism) ruining our lives for a profit, making it so we need dedicated hackers to do something as "simple" as owning our hardware.

I think voting… more

How so? Has voting ever brought any major social change? If anything, history has shown that when a vote threatens the status quo, an armed coup financed by the industry (and often foreign imperialism) will take place (see: Allende, Sankara, etc).

I think the situation about voting is summarized pretty well by this funny rap clip form the 2016 USA elections: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=D9Qv6S_GtLo

Most big societal change was done through riots, not so much voting.

Boston Tea Party, Union strikes/riots, guillotine.

Oligarchs slow boil the proles until they pop.

Yes, but you did buy the device knowing full well its limitations and obviously felt it was worth it in the end.

No trouble, but man, how boring.

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