>One, neither of us said that every HN poster is an example of entitlement, but you are claiming that we said that.

Excerpt from the original post:

"Reading all the replies on HN reminds me why companies like to outsource. Americans are expensive and have a strong sense of entitlement."

I think you're throwing in the "all" in your response as a back door out of what you and the OP have said: [some of the] people posting on HN are whiners with an entitlement mentality.

>it is a straight up misrepresentation to claim that we're putting it forth as the common case.

If it is a misrepresentation then I'm not sure what this whole thread has been about. Are we discussing theoreticals that are not actually seen anywhere? Then who cares?

>Largely in agreement with the article with very few people, including myself, calling the article out for this

There is nothing to call the article out for here. The guy just found out he's very likely working way under his market value. Now he has to take action. Of course a part of him wishes this uncomfortable situation wasn't in front of him, but to claim he "wants money for money's sake" is pretty judgmental. Do you have some reason to believe he is a petty person instead of a rational one?

>If your happiness is tied so intricately to the amount of money you receive, that is entitlement.

This is illogical. Let me try again; we sell our time for a market price. Of course the time is intricately tied to the amount of money it is worth, otherwise why bother? I have things I'd much rather be doing. I don't want to sell my time. I need money so I sell it at the best market rate I can (complimented with other factors, of course). This isn't entitlement anymore than selling any other product is.

>finding out you could have potentially had more money should not rationally decrease your happiness.

Of course it should. You were happy before because you thought you were getting acceptable value. Now you just found out you're getting ripped off.

If you bought a nice car for $5k, of course you'd be happy about such a great deal... until you found out they actually cost $1k new and you just bought it from someone who exploited your market ignorance to get an extra $4k of your money for nothing.

>we should all seek the opportunity to work every possible minute at the highest possible rate

Highest possible rate within bounds. There are jobs I'm not willing to do for anything less than FU money. But what you're missing here is that a portion of the market value is what you're willing to do. Willing to travel? Then your market rate is higher than those who aren't. Willing to spend every waking moment on the job? Then your market value might be higher than mine because I'm not willing to. I'm ok with that. I just want the best market rate I can get for what I'm offering.

>It's being unhappy about the fact I don't have it where we're seeing this irrationality.

I really think the "irrationality" you're seeing is coming from assuming someone (who ever it is) is unhappy about not getting money "for money's sake". I don't see anyone doing that and don't see that as a valid concept. I think it's about market value and companies using their advantages to exploit people's market rate ignorance.