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It's really unfortunate that people see things this way.

It's also quite unfortunate that the wave of anti-banker populism seems quite lively on HN too. I thought we were better than that.

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Its not anti-banker populism. Its the bailout mentality that these bankers have that's disconcerting. A startup that fails disappears the way its supposed to, but when a big bank fails we all pitch in the bail them out. That's the problem.

It's not anti-black racism. It's the welfare mentality that these black people have that's disconcerting. White people work for their success like they're supposed to, but when black people want to succeed we have to help them out with minority protection laws and quotas and such. That's the problem.

Whenever you generalise something to a large number of people, you commit some sort of anti-? ?ism. "Bankers" are not a singular entity that can have a "mentality".

When people are forced to patronize a service, they generally resent it.

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