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A sizable portion of the HN bubble is wannabe grifters. They look up to successful grifters.

To be fair: a sizable proportion of humans are like that.

To be fair: that's just your sample. I don't see that.

Same. Most people afaict just live with little to no ambitions.

Everybody I know is either burnt out from working or full of ambition with very few, very small opportunities.