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The "all men are created equal" slogan seems better to me.

They're biased, but in a different way. Most people are steered by wrong feelings: they feel strongly about something, although don't quite understand it, and act on those feelings. Techies are less suspectible to feelings (they are deaf in some sense), but they often get trapped in mental illusions, i.e. elaborate mental structures and ideas that incorrectly describe the world.

This is also why techies dont make it far in power structures: they don't get that emotional aspect of human relationships.

This is effectively a "minimum wage tax" in addition to the sales tax. Alternatively, it can be seen as a clever way to monetize guilt, by redirecting the staff's anger from the boss to the customer.

The HN banner idea would only antagonize the HN folks. In my childhood, parents made me eat tomatoes, because, you know, it's healthy. Since then I despise tomatoes, even though at a rational level I understand that my parents were right.

The techies types are knowledge first people. If you want to win their support, appeal to knowledge, make a rational case, but avoid trying to fool them, as the moment they notice a logical inconsistence in your ideas, they'll dismiss them entirely.

Most activism appeals to emotions, to feelings, because it matters a lot to most people. But techies put dry knowledge first and so needs to change your tactic.

Nevertheless, I'm upvoting your comment because I believe it presents an important viewpoint.