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residentcontrarian.com is a personal blog at residentcontrarian.com about culture and economics. Since 2022, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's essays on poverty, money and class, its piece on effective altruism, and its clear prose style. Commenters single out posts on being poor-ish and rich-ish.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-04-23
- On Being Rich-ish: Lessons I learned becoming suddenly middle-class5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-08-04
- A Limited Interest Article on Employer Value Prop and Hiring3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-07
- What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-17
- On the Subject of Earwax and Unsupported Medical Arguments3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-07-14
- I'm trying to figure out why I don't like Effective Altruists2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-02
- What It Takes to Become a Successful Independent Blog Writer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-27
- On Short Bursts of Impossible Stress and Depression Caused by Nothing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-25
- The weird world of the kind-of-deontologist2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-21
- A Biased Article About Finding and Maintaining Love2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-07
What Hacker News says?
It's too late to edit my comment, but as long as we're talking about it, I just read this article linked earlier today on HN, and it's such a lovely example of the classical style: https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/what-does-shitty-job-me... The author is clearly trying to give the reader what he/she knows about this subject, clearly and simply. It is straightforward, a delight to read, and an inspiration.
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on “How to write more clearly, think more clearly, and learn complex material [pdf]”Submitted What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world? as a story · 283 points
HN discussion> A shitty job at $15 an hour is equally unappealing at $16 an hour. See a contrary opinion here: https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/what-does-shitty-job-me... (Look for the “Wages, Non-Work Survival Stress, and You” section) If you are payed better than most jobs you could otherwise do, you may find that it motivates you.
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on “A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore”Submitted Nobody will admit the best novel of our generation is about football as a story · 167 points
HN discussionYou may find this post by someone who spent most of his life poor then became reasonably well-off enlightening, specifically his comments about how he was historically confused by the rich people in his life avoiding the topic of money: https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-being-rich-ish-lesso... That is - you may feel much more awkward about the wealth disparity than the janitor himself does.
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on “Don't ignore the janitor”Submitted On Being Rich-ish: Lessons I learned becoming suddenly middle-class as a story · 134 points
HN discussion>I am a sorta-rules utilitarian; in contested questions, I think the moral obligation is to behave in a fashion so that the standards by which we act, if universalized, maximize beneficial outcomes. If you'll forgive the glibness, isn't that just deontology with extra steps? Sorry, it's just been on my mind since I learned (from Resident Contrarian article[0]) that many rule-utilitarianism is a functional reskin of…
Comment linking /p/the-weird-world-of-the-kind-of-deontologist
on “The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad?”Submitted Being Poor-ish Revisited: Reader Questions (2021) as a story · 66 points
HN discussionI thought this was a good article on Effective Altruism by a blogger that has been featured here previously: https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/im-trying-to-figure-out...
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on “The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad?”Submitted Assessing a Claim: Is San Francisco's Shoplifting Problem Fake? as a story · 24 points
HN discussionFor what it's worth, I found in the comments to this article a discussion by the author of why he doesn't like David French: https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/nobody-will-admit-the-b... So I don't know about "hates", but he really does dislike the man.
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on “Nobody will admit the best novel of our generation is about football”Submitted He who submits a resume has already lost as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe author does answer this question in the comments: https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/nobody-will-admit-the-b...
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on “Nobody will admit the best novel of our generation is about football”Submitted On Malignant Escapism as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> But if you put aside those examples, I need to know what they did, and where they are, and what they are capable of doing. Interestingly enough, the article I linked in my previous comment[0], and another one by the same person[1], have answers to your questions. Also, that particular person managed to get out of poverty eventually, and wrote a follow-up post on that[2]. So that's the guy who was /really/ poor, an…
Comment linking /p/on-being-rich-ish-lessons-i-learned
on “The Cost of Being Poor: Why It Costs So Much to Be Poor in America”Submitted On the Subject of Earwax and Unsupported Medical Arguments as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> I've been poor and tired a long time ago. I know what it is like. How many times have they turned off your water? "When someone is telling me they are or have been poor and I’m trying to determine how poor exactly they were, there’s one evergreen question I ask that has never failed to give me a good idea of what kind of situation I’m dealing with. That question is: “How many times have they turned off your water?…
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on “The Cost of Being Poor: Why It Costs So Much to Be Poor in America”Submitted On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think this article needs to be read together with this other one: https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-the-experience-of-be...
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on “Being Poor-ish Revisited: Reader Questions (2021)”Submitted A Limited Interest Article on Employer Value Prop and Hiring as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRelated: https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-the-experience-of-be...
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on “The Psychology of Poverty: Where Do We Stand? [pdf]”Submitted What It Takes to Become a Successful Independent Blog Writer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLocation: Arizona, US Remote: Yes, preferred Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Keyboards, typing Résumé/CV: On Request Email: gearratiossc at gmail Who I am: I'm the Resident Contrarian, a known blogger with an audience of thousands-to-tens-of-thousands per post and a half-dozen HN frontpages. I'm recommended by Slate Star Codex/Astral Codex Ten and Ben Kuhn's blogroll, and I've been linked by Marginal Revolutio…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)”Submitted On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere was a popular submission to HN a few years ago that really opened my eyes to how having a low income can cause problems to compound, making things exponentially worse. An example the author gives of this is car problems: people with low incomes often have older cars that are more likely to have issues. If their car breaks down, there's a chance they can't afford repairs, which means they're unable to commute t…
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on “Being Poor vs. Feeling Poor”Submitted Good News Update and Bonus Article as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe sequel: On Being Rich-ish: Lessons I learned becoming suddenly middle-class https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-being-rich-ish-lesso...
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on “On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't”Submitted A Limited Interest Article on Employer Value Prop and Hiring as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis article is from early 2021, and the author's lot in life has since improved (substantially because of the article): a year and a half later he wrote a follow-up titled "On Being Rich-ish: Lessons I learned becoming suddenly middle-class". https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-being-rich-ish-lesso...
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on “On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't”Submitted On the Subject of Earwax and Unsupported Medical Arguments as a story · 2 points
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