crunchybackbone

the rational actor would pay the value of production if the actor worked in a worker co-op. then 'profit' doesn't make any sense. if the value of the group's production increases, so does the actor's wages.

addiction to profit is a hell of a habit to kick, but it's not impossible.

i mean, it's ridiculous that an article on gyms is on the front page of a hacker news site. it's so far from the original vision. it used to be you'd come to HN to hear about the latest tech news and discuss software, startups and gadgets. now it's just bloviated non-tech related articles like this that just stoke up comment flame wars. what a fall from grace.

re: the downvotes: Honestly I believe that HN is being brigaded by libertarians and /thedonald types. It's become really vehemently political and awful lately. Something's going on. Every comment that mentions this is removed, so there's that. The mods don't seem to care, or have an agenda from Thiel.

protests = outdoors. gyms=indoors.

calling a protest a riot doesn't put it indoors. gyms, shopping, etc are much more dangerous than being outside at a protest.