Yes, I would. I'm happy to use fairly mild words like 'specious' or 'bonehead' to describe a person who has decided to _celebrate_ the rise of income inequality by reinterpreting several decades of complex social and economic changes as having to do with 'entrepreneurship'.
It's hard to tell whether the guy is being actively intellectually dishonest (ie. is aware of what the major factors are in increasing inequality but is choosing to ignore them) or simply naive to the point of dimness.
Even TFA - an extremely brief treatment of inequality without a definitive focus on the US - offers enough illumination to make it obvious that simply chanting 'yay, this must mean entrepreneurship' in response to this isn't so smart.
Occam's razor. You are likely more educated than he is. But why be a douchebag about it? If your goal is to convince people of your point of view, then pissing them off is directly contrary to that.
On the other hand, if your goal is to make fun of the dimwits that surround you...
It's a fact that the world consists mostly of dimwits. I'm a dimwit about virtually everything, except programming. But it would be much more satisfying for me to teach you something programming-related, rather than to point out how stupid you are for [X programming mistake due to lack of knowledge], don't you think?
Perhaps you make a good point, but cheesy Internet libertarianism gets on my nerves, and politely correcting people that are actively celebrating increasing inequality is beyond me.
Sometimes, as the old USENET saying goes, we must retract the foreskin of ignorance and apply the wirebrush of enlightenment.
I will instead ponder the strange default assumption of everyone on Hacker News that they have Much To Teach Me about Programming. Maybe the screenname "Onan the Barbarian" fails to convey gravitas...
It's hard to tell whether the guy is being actively intellectually dishonest (ie. is aware of what the major factors are in increasing inequality but is choosing to ignore them) or simply naive to the point of dimness.
Pointing out these major factors instead of merely asserting they exist might be a more productive way of addressing the OP's comment. I, for one, would be very interested to know what factors you believe contribute to income disparity.
Collapse of US manufacturing industry and unions, reduction in minimum wages and move towards lesser job security, changes in the tax code to reduce effective progressiveness would all spring to mind as a bit more important than HN style "entrepreneurship". The list goes on and on, not always negatively - after all inequality isn't always the only issue.
One is also inclined to raise an eyebrow at the Rise of the Bankers (and the fortunes made that way), though that is entrepreneurship - and very creative - in its way.
It's hard to tell whether the guy is being actively intellectually dishonest (ie. is aware of what the major factors are in increasing inequality but is choosing to ignore them) or simply naive to the point of dimness.
Even TFA - an extremely brief treatment of inequality without a definitive focus on the US - offers enough illumination to make it obvious that simply chanting 'yay, this must mean entrepreneurship' in response to this isn't so smart.