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Re:Tell HN: Confluent laying off 8% of staff by hnfong on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:33PM (#34536367)
> It's seriously not that hard either.

Hah. Suggesting an unworkable solution is of course trivial, never mind the centuries of debate of all the shades of economic systems like cutthroat capitalism, democratic socialism, dictatorship of the proletariat and everything in between.

I mean, this is like saying Robin Hood was a serious philosopher of social economics instead of a folktale, and "robbing the rich to feed the poor" is a legit strategy that can and should be implemented under the current capitalist system.

And somehow you'd think I was the arrogant one around here for saying there's a lot we don't understand (especially about humanity, i.e. ourselves!).

Re:Tell HN: Confluent laying off 8% of staff by folkrav on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:52PM (#34536748)
I didn't suggest a solution. I literally just said "humanity" is people, and our system treating people like numbers on a spreadsheet will never sit right with me.

The rest is you going on a tangent.