He's an overconfident dipshit who made a few large, successful bets that made heaps of money; but he didn't practice any sort of risk management with his portfolio, and kind of did the opposite.

And despite that failure, he made immense personal wealth and will definitely have the opportunity to run more money in the future.

I'd love to fail as badly as he did.

You're detached from reality, and you've adopted an ideology to such a degree that you're no longer capable of seeing the world as it is.

You're no different than a weird fringe religious cult member, really.

This is, very literally, capitalism at work. It's the CEO of a massively valuable company jawboning his self-interest.

These massively valuable companies are the ones who want you to "own nothing and to be happy". That's the core tenet of the rental/"sharing" economy.

The notion that transit agencies need to be funded via fares is nonsense to begin with, but it looks even wackier when one looks at how roads are funded.

HungryHobbit's response is just making that clear... he's actively defending what was objectively a shitty and unnecessarily snarky and confrontational post, because it adhere's to the HN norms of being smug, superior, dismissive, and dickish... but in a way that is just indirect enough that these maladjusted fucking nerds can pretend that they're polite and professional.

You'll enjoy the site more if you walk in expecting that everyone you're talking to is a smug little asshole who needs to get punched in the fucking face.

It's detrimental to America and the cause of peace on numerous dimensions.

Iran's leadership was replaced with more extreme leadership and America has spent countless billions.

Nothing is better.

Only a hyperpartisan brain could refer to that as any sort of victory.

It's never 4d chess. it's just a guy desperately trying to get diesel prices to temporarily decline _without_ having to admit that he's a fucking idiot for having dragged America into Israel's war on Iran.

And even then, it's only because of the mid-terms. The GOP does not give a single solitary fuck about the sorts of people who notice and are hurt by gas prices. The GOP despises American workers.

Part of this is refusing to ever accept accountability for their actions, either individually or collectively.

It's only bad when it's going to the poor.

It's not one or two things, either. It's an endless parade of decisions, nearly all of which reward de-coupling from America.