> I speak from experience here. There is nothing, nothing noble about poverty.

Your problem is with the well known allegory, not the people on hacker news romanticizing poverty.

Your position seems to distance itself from the allegory because we have no sense that this community in Mexico has first world medical care, schools, or western clothing.

The allegory also suggests this as 'simple' life, which most probably means selling the fish at market as soon as the fisherman comes in - no salting, no drying, etc.