I was being rhetorical, echoing back SV's/tech's dominant ideology. For what I really think, see my replies to these threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10793226 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15659455 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14282791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10451733