if one includes the "/s" then they get a lot of people arguing that profit is why companies exist.
The whole point of sarcasm is that people misunderstand causing funny situations. If you are going to signal it with eg. /s you may as well just say what you mean.
I've just started reading Flowers for Algernon, highly recommended.
I would say yes few would agree but fortunately HN is still not filled with late stage capitalist idiots.
People get buttmad and downvote you for pointing out manmade global extinction events and daily death tolls from pollution. HN isn't immune from these shitbags. This site has a lot more capitalists than environmentalists.