Well just like that whole paul graham vs the founder of cloudflare last week, where PG said that the founders of airbnb were broke and that's why they started, and the cloudflare guy called him out on it mentioning they didn't have totally no support and most founders have some support backup in case things get super hard that it's really hard to be 1 paycheck from the curb and start anything, or live on the street and start a software business. A lot of people went to backup PG, but then there were a lot to side w/ Matthew Prince as well.
I think it's both ways, I mean there's both sides of the political spectrum on HN, you've got your progressives and Trump supporters, and everything in between. A lot of people aspire to be CEO here, and would like to know they can set their own rates and feel that someday they'll be the next Elon Musk though for 90% reading this that's highly unlikely they might make it to 1% of his success if they're super lucky.
Good point. I agree 100%, and it's so incredibly sad to see so many people defending the status quo in this thread.
There's a lot of CEO worship on HN. Probably a lot of startup founders full of themselves.