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Re:Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI? by romanovcode on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @04:10AM (#48367374)
The gamble is that you either succeed or fail. If you try nothing you'll work until you die regardless.

Current system: Work until you die.

New system collapses: Work until you die.

New system lucks out: Probably get returns (pension).

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Re:Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI? by rvba on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @05:21AM (#48367822)
I doubt that a FAANG programmer from hacker news has to work till they die. You are doing something wrong.

Current system isnt great but works. Just fear uncertainity doubt here.

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Re:Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI? by dgellow on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @06:08AM (#48368182)
Not everybody on HN is in a comfy FAANG role
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Re:Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI? by Normal_gaussian on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @06:35AM (#48368391)
Id go so far as to say that the majority are not.
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Re:Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI? by nervousvarun on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @06:56AM (#48368543)
I'd go so far as to say the VAST majority are not.

"back of the napkin" logic:

~2M FAANG employees (source: Gemini & this includes all types of employees...is your avg Amazon delivery driver regularly reading HN?)

~10M HN users (source: Gemini (via HN post :)) )

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Re:Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI? by rvba on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @07:03AM (#48368600)
You mean 22k unique visitors per day making 13k comments and tons of web scraping bots?

Data from 2022, so if we multiply it by 2 I would say 26k real hacker news users.

Wasnt the stat that for 1 creator there are 10 commenters and 1000 viewers?

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Re:Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI? by romanovcode on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @07:00AM (#48368578)
Why would you think that my comment is for audience less than 1% of viewers. Are you really so stupid to believe everyone here is FAANG programmer. lol, lmao even
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