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I Quit Hacker News

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261 points cwan | 1 comments | 23 Nov 10 17:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pshapiro ◴[23 Nov 10 17:15 UTC] No.1934435[source]▶
"The community is often snobbish and out of touch with how the other half lives. "

I have noticed this and unfortunately have to agree with this observation. I wonder what principle (teaching) lets hackernews people behave like that.

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ryanwaggoner ◴[23 Nov 10 17:16 UTC] No.1934444[source]▶
Most people are like this. People generally don't have a lot of understanding or empathy to the challenges of people outside their social class.
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1. Alex3917 ◴[23 Nov 10 17:32 UTC] No.1934525[source]▶
I'd say the secret to self-actualization is having a noetic understanding of the fact that others are simultaneously far more similar to us and far more different from us than we can ever fully realize.