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Are we the baddies?

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696 points AndrewSwift | 2 comments | 06 Jul 25 05:36 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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svnt ◴[06 Jul 25 06:11 UTC] No.44478246[source]▶
I find these posts primarily interesting as a sort of demographic heatmap. Like now it has gotten to the point where instead of only chasing their interest of choice (geohot hacking, in this case), this person has become aware of the issue, and been sufficiently motivated to write a post about it.

geohot is pretty deep into the center of the map afaict.

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delusional ◴[06 Jul 25 06:44 UTC] No.44478397[source]▶
I think this is what struck me as well. Hearing what I can only describe as radical anti-capitalism coming from George Hotz was not what I expected when I opened that link.

That said I have felt the same feelings expressed by Hotz in this post. I commend him for saying it.

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vasco ◴[06 Jul 25 07:42 UTC] No.44478657[source]▶
Shame they come together with casual references to burning it all down, ww3 to the rescue just because he couldn't get a hinge date fast enough.
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TFYS ◴[06 Jul 25 07:48 UTC] No.44478675[source]▶
I don't think the kind of foundational change that is needed to solve these issues has ever been done in other ways. If it can be done, it's much harder than just letting it all burn down. The people at the top of any system are not willing to change it without a fight.
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1. vasco ◴[06 Jul 25 07:59 UTC] No.44478722[source]▶
If you think "the people at the top" suffer the most during a world war you're deluded. If you're willing to do that because you don't like ads or because girls aren't replying to you on dating apps, no words.
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2. TFYS ◴[06 Jul 25 08:16 UTC] No.44478803[source]▶
They don't suffer the most, but the point isn't to make them suffer. The point is to change the system. If the current system feels unfair or wrong in some way, people will want to change it. If the only way to change it is war, and if enough people want change, then war is what will happen. The war might make things a lot worse, but at least people are worse off together and are forced to take care of each other in a way that we haven't in a long time. The selfishness will be reduced, communities will come back, and a better system might be the result.