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Also: what's "monetary" about them?

Seems pretty clear from context they meant "financial" or perhaps "related to money", I don't think we have to put them on the spot for it.

I imagine this is part of the meta-point you're making across the thread that people on HN talk out of their hat about finance (I plead guilty) but I feel like your comment about Money Stuff/"truth searching" was enough, and that asking people to defend their misuse of terminology is punching down.

I agree, but also, maybe some amount of punching down is deserved - there really does tend to be a lot of people speaking in an authoritative tone while being completely wrong in the finance-related hn threads

EDIT: I suppose we can scratch the "finance-related" bit

I'm not saying that people shouldn't be challenged, but that you can do that without punching down. Indeed, without punching.

I have no idea what that’s supposed to mean as “monetary” would include everything from lunch money to interest rates.

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