On: Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class

[abraininavat]

Looking at the comments posted here, I'm getting the sense that I'm not alone in thinking that Jaron Lanier is a huge hack. In fact it looks as if I may be in the majority. Why is it, then, that he has this reputation as being a great luminary?

[thatusertwo → abraininavat]

Alternatively the majority of HN readers make their livings doing the things Lanier is criticizing.

[bowerbird → abraininavat]

> Why is it, then, that he has > this reputation as being a great luminary?

because reputations can be manufactured like any other kind of lie, that's why.

-bowerbird

[twic → abraininavat]

This is indeed a terrible, terrible article. I have no idea how this got to the front page.