The level of discourse on HN around social issues is becoming utterly unproductive and embarassing. This is a 4th rate rant by someone with a chip on their shoulder.
You don't need a personal chef to be able to go for a run before work. I dread to think of the personal issues that underlie such a skewed incorrect view of the world
I'm starting to agree with you, and have thought about not reading the comments on these types of articles anymore.
These sorts of comments are about protecting ones ego. Instead of accepting the responsibility for not exercising, blaming the lack of a personal chef shifts the responsibility externally.
A stoic would look at the situation and figure out what is in their control to change, and then get to work. It could be something simple like no more TV. It could also be a much longer term plan like get additional education in order to find a better job which in turn leads to more free time. Regardless of the plan, the general attitude of figuring out what is in a person's control and then acting is the skill here.
>You don't need a personal chef to be able to go for a run before work.
Which is neither here, nor there. I didn't say you need one. I said that those things "are easy" when you have that kind of aid (versus not having it).
Is that somehow controversial?
I like how my statement (widely upvoted) is a "4th rate rant", but this content-less response managed to get what I wrote wrong on the one small sentence it intended as a counter-argument.
Little more than a rant designed to frame anyone with more money than you in a negative light
> Which is neither here, nor there. I didn't say you need one. I said that those things "are easy" when you have that kind of aid (versus not having it).w
No, you didn't, you explicitly and literally stated that is the reason for certain attributes, as if it were common
> They also wake up earlier than common folk, exercise and eat better than common folk, and so on. All of which are easy when you have personal chefs and a big entourage to take care of "details" like washing the dishes, taking the kids to school, preparing your clothes, making breakfast, and so on...
You are very clearly trying to dehumanise a certain quarter of society.
> They
Application, repeatedly, of a pronoun with no specification or example concrete of the target of your ire. It is abundantly clear that you need to invent fantasy to make political targets of perfectly average individuals
You don't need a personal chef to be able to go for a run before work. I dread to think of the personal issues that underlie such a skewed incorrect view of the world