It feels good to be smarter than everyone else. You see your upvotes and that's good enough for an ego boost. Been there, done that.

I wish we were a bit more self-critical about this, but it's a tough problem when what brings the community together in the first place is a sense of superiority: prestigious schools, high salaries, impressive employers, supposedly refined tastes. We're at the top of the world, right?

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rjh29 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

HN is frequently fodder for satire on other forums. Nobody thinks HN users have "refined tastes", or even that they are "smart" for that matter.

	▲	falseprofit 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hey, do you mind sharing any of these other forums? I’m trying to make my way up the satire food chain.

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le-mark 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> prestigious schools, high salaries, impressive employers, supposedly refined tastes. We're at the top of the world, right?

Being pompous and self obsessed requires none of those things.

	▲	chroma205 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Being pompous and self obsessed requires none of those things. Sufficient, but not necessary