It’s remarkably easy to tell others not to do what you did.

it's simply the principle of fuck you money

that's why they are also more egocentric, racist, etc. When people do not feel the threat of society it is easier to have opinions that verge out of the norm or could restrict further employment (and also opinions that are wrongfully or rightfully policed in society)

Money is less important once you've already paid off your mansion.

I also chuckled when an ex-Facebook employee whose blog is popular on HN lectured us on "web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you here".

I agree with your point, and superficially OP is a prime example.

Not to excuse the guy, but I think that, looking deeper, the situation with geohot is more involved. He grew up in a lower-middle-class household and was lucky to be a smart kid in a time when being a nerd could be a ticket out.

I guess not unlike many of us here on HN.

Unlike many of us, his explorations in the corporate world were all short stints. If I’ve kept tabs correctly, he never stayed longer than a year. Sometimes only for weeks.

Apart from that, I often take the pattern you noticed more as confession, penance, and a "tell your children not to walk my way" kind of message. Maybe I read this stuff too generously.

Probably not a popular opinion but this is why capitalism works. We all work to compete for what is best for US and our Family, not what someone tells us to work on because they think they know whats better, they don't.

In case he is wrong about money, he has already hedged himself.

traveling more would inspire one to think positively of capitalism, rather than the reverse. to quote andrew carnegie roughly, the status quo has always been misery for everyone, and just recently have we begun to extricate ourselves from it. not to mention that it is sheer derangement of luxury to have plenty of funding for one's own family, and yet vocally dissuade others from taking the same steps, for some "end game theoretical" that certainly won't arrive in single digit generations

I'm guessing his soapbox has a nice cushion from his previous jobs.

My point is after you’ve worked at Facebook, Google, and Twitter, telling us you had a nightmare that you worked at Amazon is hard to swallow.

Ranting about how everyone else should opt-out after he’s filled his cup at the bosom of these behemoths is hard to swallow.

In his defence, he does say that he’s targeting folks who already work in big tech.