There’s a genre of article “personal financial biography” and I believe a trope of this article is finding people who are both sympathetic and made maximally unsympathetic choices to maximize the spread of the article, on the toxoplasma of rage thesis.
A prime example is on HN.
A prime example is on HN.
I want to link to it for the purpose of social and marketing commentary but I don’t want to reward stripmining the commons in this fashion.
But there is no way the structure of this article could be accidental. “We couldn’t afford to rent a suit for my son’s prom so we bought him one on a store credit card.”
That is some “I have served my time in 4chan and know *exactly* how to push buttons” level of trolling.
