hacker news sees creating a company and tearing up regulations as the ultimate form of altruism and bravery

add in a side of guzzling right wing talking points from a fire hose and claiming to be a philosopher-economist and you've got a nice front page post discussion

And don't forget the saving-the-world heroics.

If you say anything vaguely right wing on this site you're shadowbanned within the hour. It's basically reddit

What do you expect for a site created originally to support communication and community among startup founders? YC from the very start was an archetype of the SV startup ethos: be economically subversive, disrupt the mainstream corporate choices, engage in capitalism at its fullest, all so you can take the place of and become the huge corporation you set out to compete with.

To many people in this world, startup founders are the underdog. But they seem to forget that, at some point in their growth, they stop being the underdog and instead become the incumbent.

Unfortunately, this mindset often taints the attitudes of people who post here. The term "hacker" used to be primarily associated with counter-culture types, those lower on the corporate totem pole, but more recently it's also come to be associated with people who "hack" capitalism and become financially, economically, and career-track successful.