>> Not really sure ANY government service runs well.

Really? You think no government services runs well? None what so ever???

That is disingenuous. People absolutely want to cut all University research without regard as to what it for.

What if they work for the wsj?

And I'd like add if you are not a "Pro" you better not park in the "Pro Parking" spots at Home Depot either.

I laughed at that. I forgot they had those.

I hate the touch bar. I want my function keys back.

You have it completely reversed. Hard work for the poor most likely means they will still be poor and therefore have very little to gain from it.

This is just not true, at least in Australia (and I suspect most other first-world countries, including the US).

If anything, it's easier to go from having nothing to a comfortable, middle-class lifestyle than it is to go from middle-class to wealthy.

First-world is not most world. And even those places face welfare state dismantlement since at least the 80s.

Funnily enough, most of the people that seem to express this sentiment live in the first world and are educated.

I guess people who live in the third world and have mastered English see living proof every day of where their hard work can get them.

And you of course don't find promoting coups to overthrow the democratically elected government of you country to be a threat to family and kids, right? That all okay. Cool.

Lots of people have left nursing in the past few years. If it paid a decent wage many would come back.

Exactly. Yahoo is still here, is it a force like the 2001 Yahoo?

Yahoo still had other things like news and stocks once nobody was around for a game of Literati. What does Twitter have when there's no one left to argue aimlessly?

If you think there will ever be a shortage of people arguing aimlessly, all I can say is "Welcome to the Internet".

Did you reply to the wrong comment? I said Twitter, not the internet.

I know what you said. My point is that as long as there is a good supply of people wanting to argue pointlessly on the Internet, Twitter will have no shortage of same. I've had an Mastodon account for years; as others have pointed out, it's just not the same thing. (cf. the bien-pensant arguing over which is the "correct" server to join.)

The only way to fully replicate Twitter's ability for anyone to potentially address the entire world is to, well, replicate Twitter. No alternative (including, meta-speaking, Hacker News) suffices.