I'm anti-establishment because the establishment doesn't care about anyone but themselves. What are we doing all this work for? Progress would be getting universal healthcare for all in this country. Getting better work life balance. Being able to afford a home. Now it's just all the "haves" fighting bitterly to keep getting more and more until they have everything and nothing for anyone else.

That's one negative quality that Hacker News always had to me, compared to older hacker spaces such as newsgroups and Slashdot: The Petit bourgeois conformism and materialism. People always drunk the Venture Capital pseudo-libertarian cool-aid with too much enthusiasm here.

Being anti-establishment should not be viewed as a sin, unless in extreme cases.

Anti-establishment is sort of a requirement for doing a start-up.

Aggressiveness is a requirement for doing a start-up in times of constrained capitalism

Low quality is driven the by the availability of capital for dumb ideas.

So... a while now?

I have noticed that it coincides with the re-election of a certain political candidate (He who must not be named).

The facade of "critical and rational thinker" has all but completely fallen away and this place has revealed itself for the true ideological echo chamber that it is.

Some of us just want to see the (AI) world burn.

Have you looked at the establishment recently?

I agree. HN basically became Reddit.

Since when are Hackers™ pro establishment? Also what's wrong with being anti-establishment exactly, especially the current one, or really most of the recent neoliberal ones?

won't somebody think of the establishment