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>>cwan+(OP)
"The community is often snobbish and out of touch with how the other half lives. "

I have noticed this and unfortunately have to agree with this observation. I wonder what principle (teaching) lets hackernews people behave like that.

>>pshapi+61
Most people are like this. People generally don't have a lot of understanding or empathy to the challenges of people outside their social class.

>>ryanwa+f1
I'd say the secret to self-actualization is having a noetic understanding of the fact that others are simultaneously far more similar to us and far more different from us than we can ever fully realize.