It may not have been obvious but I was being sarcastic. I thought the use of the word "filthy" when describing workers was bombastic enough to get my sarcasm across, but I do understand how this is a site filled with temporarily embarrassed billionaires and I could have hit Poe's law.

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Good sarcasm mixes in seamlessly with legit, sincerely held beliefs, and Hacker News has built up a sizable subset audience of people sincerely simping and white-knighting for corporations.

Love the fight between embarrassed billionaires and embarrassed commissars.

I’m fairly certain the non billionaire “temporarily embarrassed billionaires” are much less forthright with their ideology than the commissars are.

Tbh I’ve heard a lot of critique of communists but this this the first time I’ve heard someone claim they were embarrassed about their position

I like how inflation has made having a million just ever so slightly realistic for enough people(heck you can get million dollar mortgages now) that Steinbeck's quote has been changed to "temporarily embarrassed billionaires"

On matters relating to Naughty Old Mr Car in particular, it can be difficult to tell; Poe’s Law is in full effect with some of his weirder fanboys.

McDonalds is its own special case though. In the US they own a lot of property. It should drive down prices and raise wages but they choose not to. It’s crooked af and is a part of a system that produces all sorts of hidden cost on tax payers.