So, all of them?

You’re going to have to explain the logic of that to me.

Do you disagree that (many, perhaps not all) billionaires also create a massive amount of value for society? Would Jeff Bezos be a billionaire if Amazon was a net drain on society?

Jeff Bezos being incredibly rich doesn’t make my life worse. In fact, Amazon makes my life better. I’ve had jobs that existed because Amazon existed. I’ve had things I wanted to buy delivered very quickly. I read my Kindle for hundreds of hours a year.

If we eliminated billionaires would everyone have healthcare, a decent roof over their head, and other basic things?

I generally believe that to not be the case. The government misspends (to an extent) the money it has now. So the solution is to give them more money to misspend?

IMO this would be like in 1997 (or pick whatever year you think the Internet took off) asking, "How do you feel about posts about the Internet taking over the HN front page?"

Probably only thing I would’ve done differently would have been to limit first call to 30 minutes to save me time when someone is obviously a bad fit.

Because I have less than 0 interest in doing that work myself. If I have to email 5 days in a row to get something fixed, that is a cost I’ll happily pay.

I want to spend 0 of my time on home maintenance of any kind. I’d rather be reading a book, watching tv, shopping online, going out to eat, sitting quietly, etc.

It’s not particularly complicated, we just see the world in different ways.

There is not. It’s the same 11 people who have a hobby of posting online about how much they miss buttons.

To be fair, I don’t think the criticisms are illegitimate by your definition, I just think they’re pointless and from vocal crybabies.

WWII fighter plane with red spots on it dot gif.

The vast majority of people who buy Kindles simply read books on them and don’t repeatedly cry online about features that are never coming back.

I’ve bought about 10 of the things dating back to 2012 either because I wanted to have the latest model or because I wanted to give one as a gift. They are all amazing devices.

I’ve never thought, “boy I better go online and complain about this one.” I’ve just been too busy buying and reading books on them!

Shocker, you're 25 years older and feel nostalgia for the way things were when you were young.

> I won't vibe-code it, what's the fun in that?

I mean, find out what the fun is in that? Or don't and cry on HN? Your choice.

> I don't care for coding new stuff.

OK, don't code new stuff then.

Take the opposite view that computers are more fun than ever and see if you can understand that perspective? What would someone who believes that be doing on their computer? Why would that be fun for them?

If you're not willing to consider that seriously then yeah you're probably just going to get sadder and sadder.

This is just like everyone who says, “An iPad is not suitable for serious work.”

By which they (and you) generally mean, “What I do is serious work. What you do is unserious work.”

I think I do serious work – I mean they pay me for it? And I have only copy/pasted and just run whatever code’s been generated by AI for the past 12 months or so. Whenever I can I just let the AI run it itself.

Sad to learn that I’ve been so unserious all this time.

> Naming things is hard!

Indeed.