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

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!