For some people the most impactful thing they have done in life is create something that makes obscene amounts of money. I designed and built nanoshelters.com to help homeless people secure uninterrupted sleep. I should be worth more than most of you 'money is god' programmers but we live in a world that values how you much money you make rather than how you treat other humans.
I won't speak for the parent comment, and this isn't a critique on you, but I think it's more of a reflection on the reader than an ironic take.
Many would read "I should be worth more than..." as "I should have more money than...", but that's exactly what the parent comment is railing against. In the corporate world, and especially in the startup space, money is often the metric that defines worth. In the parent comment's world, I imagine they would rather that not be the case, and by <some other metric> they would be worth more than these startups/"money is god programmers" that are "only" worth money.
It could've been put a bit more nicely by not implying the reader is a 'money is god programmer,' but otherwise it's a valid opinion, I think.
I understood it to mean "most of the people on this site", and I certainly didn't take it personally.
The irony I understood from the comment is that the metric the commenter suggests should be considered more strongly is how one treats others, and they do so in the same breath as talking down on some group of people, which would probably take a few points off of their value as measured by that metric. The irony, in my mind, does not hinge on whether or not they'd be more valuable than the subjects of their missive but rather on the fact that their actions conflict with their value system.
I take offense at this. I value other humans, I help other humans. Most people do. But I take care of myself and expect other people to mostly do the same.
I think it's telling that you frame your most impactful work in the context of how much better you are than other people, and how the world owes you something other people have because it's an unjust place, and the mindset probably does more harm to you than you'd realize. If you want to help people, do that, focus on that.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to Hacker News? You've unfortunately been doing that repeatedly and we end up having to ban that sort of account. I don't want to ban you.
