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Comment by WFHRenaissance | Hacker News Reader

LOL, are you insisting that HN has a libertarian/laissez-faire ideology?

This site is BLUE.

"Blue" about SOME social issues, extremely right-wing libertarian regarding other topics like economics, foreign policy and the environment. It is pretty much aligned with mainstream Democrats so at the end you are correct.

UmbertoNoEco is a good one. Travels In Hyperreality changed my life.

I didn't insist anything.

Very much so, yes. Anarcho-capitalist is the prevailing economic inclination of most people on HN. On the social scale, it seems more evenly split between progressive, conservative, with some reactionaries here and there.

Mapping that on the stupid US blue vs red scale is downright impossible.

> Anarcho-capitalist is the prevailing economic inclination of most people on HN.

Most people? What?

You're entitled to any perception of reality that you want, but I find it hard to believe that anybody can genuinely perceive ancaps to be the prevailing economic opinion here.

Well that's just the impression i get, it's not like we can have actual data on the matter.

But every discussion I've seen where economics have been brought up, anti-regulation, pro-business, "free market will fix everything", "all the problems come from the regulation and because it's not a true free market" opinions seem to be the majority. Regardless of the topic - be it environmental regulations, monetary policies, the amount of work required to open a restaurant, EU regulatory work against Bit Tech or other oligopolies, etc.

I'm not sure they are the majority opinion but I agree they are common. It's not surprising given the number of CEOs and venture capitalists on the site.

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