In the USA we have intellectual property laws. Americans who “hack” (write computer code) for a living do so because of those laws. In communist China, they do not believe in intellectual property. People abuse the term “hacker” to mean followers of Ayn Rand, because people like Thiel and Marc Andreassan are uber CatoBros. I think hackers have to actually write code. Anyway, I know about the cypherpunks and all that.