> we’ve all just kinda decided

“we’ve all” kind of masks the way those who benefit the most from that decision are disproportionately influential it making it, both initially and on an ongoing basis,

Sure, but I mean, spend some time around HN and you'll find plenty of people defending hypercapitalism as obviously the best way for things to be.

Hell, not long ago I had someone challenge me on whether or not exploiting people for profit, in particular in health care, was wrong or not.

HN likes to blow wind up their own arse about the quality of discourse here but it's just Reddit without the memes/jokes.