Posts like these are why I am so incredibly glad that HN isn't the only place where the blog post is being discussed.

This place already was lousy with empathy-challenged people, but these days, man, they’ll gladly kick a person down on their luck.

	▲	sellmesoap 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I also see kindness and concern on here, we get what we give! It's a thing to glom onto drama, and in this attention economy it's easy to fall down a dopamine spiral, even on a algo-lite platform such as this. Hello my name is sellmesoap and I'm a hacker-news-aholic!