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More Crows than Eagles
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More Crows than Eagles is a personal blog at morecrows.wordpress.com about culture and startups. Since 2014, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Unnecessariat”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (17) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for "The Unnecessariat" (2016), an essay on economically left-behind Americans, which commenters cite to explain the Trump vote, the opioid epidemic and rural suicides.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 17 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
More Coyotes than Wolves
Most-linked posts?
- Unnecessariat17 people · 22 mentions · first linked 2016-05-12
What Hacker News says?
> a race of the well-educated against the less-educated Education level correlates with income as well, so you could also say it's the high income vs the low income. If the going's good, you don't want to change things. If you're getting shafted, might as well shake things up. This was on HN awhile back: https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/
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on “UK votes to leave EU”Submitted Unnecessariat as a story · 383 points
HN discussion> Instead of just yelling bigot/racist/etc., I think Trump's opposition needs to actually listen and see what people are really seeing in him. Here. Let me tell you what people see in him. He's bringing up the issue of labor arbitrage. That's the beginning and the end of it. Anyone who talks about Trump without looking at that issue is absolutely clueless (IMHO). The reason for this cluelessness is that most pundits…
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on “UK votes to leave EU”Submitted Entrpreneurship Means I Give Up as a story · 89 points
HN discussionIf you want to know why Trump won: https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/
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on “Donald Trump Is Elected President”Submitted Ebola Ebola as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI bet you live in a major city. I live in the USA and would feel this way too about Trump if I didn't know people who lived in the interior. I live in the Los Angeles metro, which is one of America's "alpha cities." London and other major global cities have formed something almost akin to the science fiction concept of a breakaway civilization. They are their own global meta-nation. Meanwhile the interior and rural…
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on “Theresa May to create new internet controlled and regulated by government”Submitted Unnecessariat (2016) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPretty much this. "Utopians on the coasts occasionally feel obliged to dream up some scheme whereby the unnecessariat become useful again, but its crap and nobody ever holds them to it. If you even think about it for a minute, it becomes obvious: what if Sanders (or your political savior of choice) had won? Would that fix the Ohio river valley? Would it bring back Youngstown Sheet and Tube, or something comparable t…
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on “Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'”Submitted Unnecessariat (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhat makes you think it's a bubble? Just because something is unpleasant, or even outright evil doesn't make it a bubble. Perhaps at some point an equilibrium is reached where these institutions extract exactly as much as the degree is worth, minus the little bit left that will incentivize people to take the deal. After all, the 'value' of these degrees has only gone up. Overproduced malthusian elitehood[0] has to b…
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on “The Uncharity of College: The Big Business Nobody Understands”Submitted Unnecessariat (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCheck https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/ for some deep reasons and for a feel how bad it is. Don't blame this or that pharma for it, that's a distraction.
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on “America’s opioid epidemic is worsening”Submitted Unnecessariat as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI offer links to an engaging blog post [0] and a scholarly paper [1] that both suggest there is more to the epidemic than 'fearmongering and political noise'. Could you elaborate on the evidence for your beliefs? [0] https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/ [1] http://www.pnas.org/content/112/49/15078.abstract
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on “America’s opioid epidemic is worsening”Submitted Dogs and Chocolate as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCheck https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/ for more. One of the best posts in 2016.
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on “Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Years”Criminal drug laws aren't stopping the opioid epidemic, and they prevent us from asking the real question: why is it that so many people prefer an opioid stupor to being productively engaged in our society? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park Note the overlap between the suicide maps and the opioid overdose maps: https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/ People are killing themselves. Heroin and f…
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on “California ballot measure to decriminalize adult use of hallucinogenic mushrooms”I think this was already the case. This piece is from 2016: https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/ > Here’s the thing: from where I live, the world has drifted away. We aren’t precarious, we’re unnecessary. The money has gone to the top. The wages have gone to the top. The recovery has gone to the top. And what’s worst of all, everybody who matters seems basically pretty okay with that. The new br…
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on “US home construction surges 22.6%, third monthly increase”One more piece if anybody stumbles across this: https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/
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on “In Towns Already Hit by Factory Closings, a New Casualty: Retail Jobs”I agree that we should tamper with natural economic forces as little as possible, we should remember that even economic nature can be a cruel, cruel bitch. Read the following for why we should sometimes risk economic meddling, despite the costs and risks. https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/ TL;DR: Being on the bottom of the economic ladder is terrible and near impossible to escape.
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on “A strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy”Arguably, some of this is already happening. IMO there was a much better article a few months ago - https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/
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on “The rise of the useless class”"we need everybody to work" Getting past this fiction is only the beginning. Many, many people find meaning in their lives through performing a task that others deem necessary . When nobody is necessary, the economy decouples from the people. We actually have examples of societies that operate like this right now: Eritrea [0] for one. The government of that country has decided it has no real use for most of its peop…
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on “In Sweden, Happiness in a Shorter Workday Can’t Overcome the Cost”http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-on... is probably the best article I've seen as a 'splainer for those of us from this side of the pond. https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/ is also excellent reading.
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on a deleted threadI know several people who are voting for Trump even though they can't stand him because they think it will send a message. It's basically a "F-U" vote. I even know one who supported Sanders and is now voting for Trump. Trump and Sanders are/were both very anti-establishment candidates, and their popularity comes from the fact that both talk about the economic collapse of the American interior. I also get a strong se…
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on “Confused Why Donald Trump’s Message Is Resonating?”
