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Well it is a good critical comment but the HN readers are part of the same bubble and don't realize it :)



It is not, it's far too short for that. The way it is now it isn't even a decent invitation to discuss.

dav43 could probably expand it into one easily though. What kind of bubble? Who's in it? Why do they think so? What are the consequences and what could be done about it? etc.


Well let me expand it again (i have another comment saying the same thing):

HN readers are for the most part highly paid tech workers. Even in the US, tell someone who makes 30k/year that you spend 1K/year on someone's Patreon and he'll think you're crazy... or spit in your face.


> HN readers are for the most part highly paid tech workers

That's a false assumption. HN is much larger than you think, with people all over the US and all over the world. It has highly paid workers, lowly paid workers, people who don't need to work, and people who need to but can't find any.

We tend to make assumptions like "for the most part" based on the internal image when our pre-existing conditions meet a handful of striking data points—say the first 3 or so. And then we don't change it. But which data points happen to strike us are actually a function of our pre-existing conditions also. There are many other data points.


That use of "bubble" is a pejorative, so the comment contained zero information, which means it teaches us nothing.




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