Show HN: Race to the Bottom

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TLDR

  • Head-to-head voting tool ranks industries by perceived societal harm, aggregating public opinion into a leaderboard snapshot.

Key Takeaways

  • Users vote on industry pairs based on personal values; results reflect aggregate harm perception, not objective metrics.
  • The framing explicitly avoids stigmatizing specific industries while surfacing overlooked societal impacts.
  • Stats are global and shared; no per-user tracking currently exists.
  • Leaderboard output doubles as an informal map of the economy sorted by public distrust.

Hacker News Comment Review

  • Commenters quickly noted the leaderboard reads as a broad economic snapshot, not just a harm ranking, suggesting dual utility.
  • The builder confirmed no user data is stored per session; regional or state-level breakdowns were flagged as a high-value missing feature.

Notable Comments

  • @DaryaHr: Suggested attaching nonprofit links to causes and connecting results to regional statistics for actionable downstream use.

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