He has on the tiniest of ideas of what he's doing; he might be breaking the law; he's audacious and realized he could just do it; he wants to be in California because that's where dreams come true; he's probably from an upper middle class white family with parents who didn't pay him enough attention.
And he's doing it all because he wants a status symbol of wealth and prosperity, and someone told him he couldn't.
Yeah I'm not sure whether people upvote this story because, like you, they are critics of the idea and want to make fun of it or at least highlight the dangers, or because this spirit envokes a truthfully positive association. Probably both, because it gives something to both sides.
Personally, I feel that there is a little boy/girl in everyone of us and quite many tech-immigrants to SFBA went there to chase their own Lambo type dreams. This isn't something reprehensible but in fact part of the american fabric (liberty and the pursuit of happiness).
But of course the metaphor ends at the absolute danger of the situation the boy is causing. A startup is comparatively safe to what the little guy did.
Is this mentioned in another article on this topic? I didn't see that in this article. This article states this as his basic motivation:
>“She told him she would not buy him a Lamborghini,” the Highway Patrol said in a tweet. “He decided to take the car and go to California to buy one himself.”
Definitely looks more “Hispanic” than “white” to me. Googling his surname also shows (mostly) Hispanics. The photos also don’t scream “upper middle class” to me, but that’s harder to judge.
this kid really embodies the american spirit: rich white boy doing whatever the fuck he wants without the slightest concern for who he might hurt or kill in the process, all in the delusional pursuit of a meaningless status symbol he has been conned into thinking he can get because of the cultish adherence to the belief it’s the land of equal opportunity despite any and all evidence to the contrary, all while trumpeting about how great he is to anyone who will listen
Your comments have been breaking the site guidelines badly, not just in this thread but unfortunately in other threads too. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site to heart?
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if there were a way to delete all my posts and my account I would do that. the hacker news community has become thoroughly disappointing to
me and I retroactively want all my contributions withdrawn. i want nothing to do with it.
He has on the tiniest of ideas of what he's doing; he might be breaking the law; he's audacious and realized he could just do it; he wants to be in California because that's where dreams come true; he's probably from an upper middle class white family with parents who didn't pay him enough attention.
And he's doing it all because he wants a status symbol of wealth and prosperity, and someone told him he couldn't.