Yep, sorry. I thought it was obviously facetious. Probably not in the spirit of HN, but with all the victory lapping by the liberal wing of HN tonight, I guess the libertarian in me got a bit carried away.
It's a bit cynical to call that "the HN party line". There's surely a bunch of hardcore libertarians out here who would hold that opinion (by which I won't implicate that any libertarian would) but I doubt it's a majority.
Ha, and here I thought it was too libertarian leaning so I must really be off the deep end. Maybe the author should have stuck to non-political examples since the examples are really not the point of the article, though I know all the fun ones are political.
> HN is pretty Libertarian, and Libertarianism is the polar opposite of egalitarianism.
That's a pretty bold claim. On HN we see the recurring "growing inequalities are bad"-posts whining all the time. Libertarians are not against inequalities in the first place, so I'd say HN is rather not too Libertarian, while there are certainly more Libertarians here than on other communities.
I wonder why you're being downvoted. Sometimes HN is funny. I'm not a libertarian, but it seems like one of the things people criticize (and often make fun of) them for is consistently wanting smaller government. So, with certain marginal exceptions, your statement is essentially true, and I think it's worth pointing out in this case.
I am a libertarian although you're right that that comment wasn't supposed to be an endorsement, just an explanation of the mindset of its more stringent adherents
Lowercase-L libertarian means that you care about liberty. I could have said "classical liberal," which would encompass modern libertarians and the Founders alike.
> echo chamber
I'm not getting a strong libertarian vibe from HN on anything except encryption/privacy, which is really ironic.
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