Hacker News: boombabothttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=boombabotHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:07:58 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by boombabot in "The Origins of Wokeness"]]>Tech elite currently enjoy disproportionately large benefits from rampantly un-balanced systems that allow them to exploit people for their work and therefore they stand to lose quite a bit from any rebalancing of said systems.

Basically, workers get nothing and CEOs get everything.

]]>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:28:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696898boombabothttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696898https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696898<![CDATA[New comment by boombabot in "The Origins of Wokeness"]]>It feels like an accounting of a person who is very deeply wearing tinted glasses about the world.

]]>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:18:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696787boombabothttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696787https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696787<![CDATA[New comment by boombabot in "The Origins of Wokeness"]]>The problem appears to be with performativeness specifically. Because it is performative, it is superficial, and that's bad.

What this post is hilariously doing is policing what is considered superficial humanity and what is not.

Let's be woke but really mean it lads, then the conservatives will be with us!

]]>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:04:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696682boombabothttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696682https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696682<![CDATA[New comment by boombabot in "The Origins of Wokeness"]]>Reaction, reaction everywhere

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