A key thing to understand about the technology industry is that Hacker News is a very well-known community for some kinds of coders to hang out; it is an extremist content site run as paid promotion for the venture capital firm YCombinator. Here, an ordinary discussion of the obvious reality that tech workers deserve unions features responses citing explicitly white supremacist rhetoric as a counterargument. No one is even surprised that this is how YC markets itself. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507458
@anildash I can't find the racist rhetoric, so either it's buried deeper than my reading speed, or you're speaking quite broadly of meritocracy as a racist presupposition (or rather a presupposition common long racists).
If it's the latter, I've always found it easier to note the lack of equal start, than adopting an adversarial stance. Inequality is well documented and easy to understand once someone presents it.
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That feels like a bit of a deviation.
I've read 4 or 5 translations, and don't remember similar phrasing.
There's the MIT copy for comparison:
"He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent. He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty. He who is satisfied with his lot is rich; he who goes on acting with energy has a (firm) will."