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hilbert42last Monday at 4:49 PM0 repliesview on HN

"Sometimes protests that reach enough crowd get heard and the problem gets fixed..."

That's the stuff of revolution. Feudalists don't listen until forced to under duress, that's when things usually turn very nasty—shades of 1789 and like. The Ancien Régime sans a head or two.

Feudalists all have certain traits in common: arrogance and a sense of superiority coupled with shortsightedness and a lack of empathy.