Do you want to de-escalate or make flame wars?
Taking his personal struggles out of kernel development and onto Hacker News was the escalation – pointing out his hypocrisy is only trying to get people who agree with him to realize that they’re wrong.
So you want to take the power to produce taken away from the producers and coalesce it into the hands of those who do not produce for the sole purpose of controlling those who do produce.
You're literally a walking Orwell quote.