I don't get the sense there is a lot of sympathy from HN over this event. People lost money, payroll may be missed, that's a detrimental thing for a lot of people.
If little sympathy, why?
If little sympathy, why?
I don't think many will argue that this is a "good" thing or that they are "happy" to see ppl suffer (some might but they generally are a fringe group) but agreeing that a situation sucks doesn't mean you are willing to take a bullet to fix it.
I get the sense that most people are more in the camp of: "Yeah that sucks, hope it works out for you and maybe think about the risks more next time"
The vitriol for those archetypes will override any empathy for the victims from knock-on effects and lower level, poorer employees that will impacted by this. If that empathy was ever there to begin with, I guess. I personally believe that people want to hate the rich more than they want to empathize with the poor.
Personally, I can do without the DoorDashes of the world... but startups collectively employ A LOT of people and not all of them are wealthy, senior engineers. When the wealthy sneeze, the poor tend to catch pneumonia.
May they burn brightly.