Sticking up for my ideological opposite crankylinuxuser again. HN is constantly used for political and ideological battle. Why is crankylinuxuser's different?

Disclaimer: I'm not a mod, so you don't have to listen to my opinion.

This article is about low-skill workers, and has nothing to do with tech companies being against unions.

But, it could simply be a tangential discussion, and those are often interesting! My main concern was the

    Capitalists are well known to conspire together and create capitalist unions to block workers of all stripes.

generalization, which turned a potentially interesting discussion of tech unions into an "capitalism vs. xyz" ideological battle.

Excellent point. I concede.

> Disclaimer: I'm not a mod, so you don't have to listen to my opinion.

So... You're masquerading as a HN mod? Damn.

Now, that seems like a bannable offense.

I'm not trying to masquerade as a mod, I'm trying to gently suggest that ideological battles be fought elsewhere, and for us to focus on the discussion itself (tech unions).

I've edited my first comment to make it more apparent - I thought that sort of comment was a common thing, but perhaps I'm wrong.

Rather than threats, I'd like to hear commentary. If anyone's "destroy[ying] intellectual curiosity", its the one threatening bans.

I've made a point, from multiple sources, that SV major players are retarding salaries from all but the C-level positions. Considering that YC is in that area, it would be a rather interesting discussion to hear from the VC's vs workers vs founders.

But, threats.

> it would be a rather interesting discussion to hear from the VC's vs workers vs founders.

I'd love to hear that conversation, I think it'd be very interesting. That is very tangential to commentary on capitalism itself, which is purely ideological.