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> and the shareholders.

Your comment is an illustration of exactly what is wrong with this website. Given his preceding statements, I sincerely do not believe it is sarcasm.

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I'm quite sure he's being sarcastic.

"The best good ever is to maximise shareholder profits" is a tired and cliched caricature that some people unfortunately take seriously. But this is too on the nose.

The fact that, on HN, you can't be sure of that, tells you all you need to know.

I have the innate right to take what is said literally. Moreover, his preceding statements attempt to legitimize his concluding statement.

You also have the innate right to be off base, btw.

It's sarcasm, and the main tell is I'm not even bothering with pretense; just serving up the dystopia straight and acting like that's good.

But one of the "fun" things about HN is SV is so fucked up you can't even be sure someone doesn't actually sincerely believe that shit. And most of them are probably dumbasses with nothing to gain.

I appreciate sarcasm when it's clear. Marking it as "/s" prevents this whole line of discussion. As you noted in your last paragraph, it's hard to be sure without a marking.

I’ve been on HN long enough to know that a disturbing number of people do actually believe that line and act accordingly.

I've come to the same conclusion. Some believe that grownups shouldn't care about RAM prices going up.

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