Attacking someone personally is not ok. We're trying to avoid the online callout/shaming culture here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...

Having a flamewar about the definition of a word is particularly pointless because different people have very different associations with the same word—especially when you remember that this place literally has commenters coming from all over the world.

Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines in other threads as well, e.g. here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32050947. We eventually ban accounts that do that, so please don't do that. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

I'm an Engineer and an MBA, very proud of both designations, and proud of almost all of my colleagues in both of those fields.

I'm a better person for knowing the people I worked and studied with.

I'm not hugely offended by the OP comment (or even yours), it's not a big deal, rather I'm pointing out that it is straight up a kind of misplaced bigotry - maybe not the best word, but it's correct. It's more ridiculous than anything.

Just re-read what you wrote: "because you are in the squeeze & exploit group and you know it"

Seriously? What the F is your problem? Why would you even conceive to write that to a random commenter on HN?

Do you folks not see this weirdly dark and perverse cynicism coming out here? What's wrong with you people?

I think maybe there is an odd, intellectually lazy thing happening whereby some people, possibly lacking the understanding of a lot of the mechanics of the 'business world', and knowing that 'bad business people exist' ... just want to throw it onto 'MBAs' for some strange reason, not understanding how odd and misinformed that rationalization is. It's really weird. Guys, stop this, it's just misinformed.