"it's as useful as saying to a poor person "all you have to do to get out of poverty is earn $200K per year and not spend it all"" It's as useful as saying to someone in debt, "you need to spend less than you earn" people have agency in their calorific intake, that they don't in what their employer is willing to pay them.

It is logical, yes, I'm not saying its straight forward, you're putting words in my mouth.

I didn't ignore any considerations, just because I didn't enumerate every single potential consideration. I picked up on one specific part of a reply. I don't think its required to explain my entire world view to make that one point. Neither is it fair to start filling in blanks about my world view from one data point.

Yes I have reflected, I've reread that comment, and can see how someone could interpret it a certain way. That is why I have clarified myself multiple times. But you still seem to be ignoring what I have said I'm saying, in favour of your own interpretation of what you've already decided I'm saying. That isn't my problem, that is yours.

Ps if you read the HN guideline it says "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says" I applied that to the first 2 comments of this long thread. It's a shame others won't extend the same courtesy to me.

It also says "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html