Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. I realize there is a provocation in the title, but resisting provocations is part of the art of avoiding degenerate threads.

What tends to make for better threads is focusing on the specifics of a specific story, and steering clear of the pull of the nearest generic black holes.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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