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Comment by waffleiron | Hacker News Reader

Why on hacker news when it comes to tech salaries, if they stay for a year the same everyone calls it a reduction due to inflation.

However in cases of poor people and poverty there must be an ulterior motive.

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It’s a VC backed forum, there’s a bias towards a population that looks down on the poor and fetishizes wealth.

It’s not everyone or even a majority but because of the VC backing it’s going to be more than the general population

Are you suggesting that hn is removing comment's/post's that don't look down on the poor or fetishize wealth? I'm not sure how hn being vc backed has any influence on how I or anyone else here comments

It sounds like parent comment is suggesting that hn attracts a demographic of people who look down on the poor and fetishize wealth, not that it's suppressing posts or trying to influence comments.

That was correct, I was commenting on the input demographics to the community, not on moderation activities

You don't need to remove content when you can let the users flag and downvote what "doesn't belong to" HN

Because the former is a reduction in real terms. The latter is an increase in real terms. The increase from $2.15 2017 dollars to $3.00 2021 dollars is well above the inflation in that time frame. The article points this out quite explicitly:

> However, the IPL has also increased substantially, even after inflation adjustments. The poverty line has increased in real terms.

I see your ad hominem and lack of actually explaining why the GP is wrong. Because they're not wrong. They definitely benefit from this redefinition.

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