It's a matter of human beings being treated like cogs in a machine (which is in fact what they are in today's world). The potential of highly intelligent people is wasted by those who are better at extracting value than creating it. This leads to ever growing frustration which eventually explodes leading to the destruction of peoples lives.
These are seen as individual problems but if these trends continue I believe they will lead to the failure of human civilization and possibly of the human species itself.
hard worker - exactly the type of concept that the machine uses to exploit the naive.
You realize that Hacker News is focused on people starting businesses, right? Why are you here?
hard worker - exactly the type of concept that the machine uses to exploit the naive.
When you get your car worked on, do you expect that the mechanic should fix your car because you're paying him to or because you give him a hug and tell him that he's a useful human being?
When you get a cup of coffee, do you expect the barista to want not only for you to pay for your double whip latte, but to also feel that you're validating her as a human being?
The guy was "well paid and well treated". Without an iota of evidence that the business was doing anything wrong besides expecting that its employees do a good job - you indite the system and ignore the probable fact that this guy had mental stability issues that were going to come out either at work, his personal life, wherever.
> When you get a cup of coffee, do you expect the barista to want not only for you to pay for your double whip latte, but to also feel that you're validating her as a human being?
Yes. I go out of my way to do so. I do try to find things to praise because these people have tons of negative interactions everyday. I do my best to make my interactions with them positive.
I'm not pushing you anywhere. Be here if you like. I was just trying to understand it.
Your comments here are about as appropriate as if I'd go to the golf course and go on melodramatically about how awful a sport golf is. At some point, people would ask me, "Why are you here if you don't like golf?"
These are seen as individual problems but if these trends continue I believe they will lead to the failure of human civilization and possibly of the human species itself.
hard worker - exactly the type of concept that the machine uses to exploit the naive.