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See, I would have said that the "rabid mob" on HN is biased towards free-market libertarianism. The Silicon Valley crowd loves it.
by PhasmaFelis 7y ago
See, I would have said that the "rabid mob" on HN is biased towards free-market libertarianism. The Silicon Valley crowd loves it.
- ur-whale 7y agoFrom experience, there are fare less libertarians in the "Silicon valley crowd" than many believe. Silicon Valley average tech. employees crowd is largely made of left-wingers, most of which are as far away from classical liberalism as one can be without being a card-carrying communist.
- syshum 7y agoAs a life long libertarian and many many years reading HN, HN is in no way a libertarian community, If you believe HN is libertarian you would be in for an extreme shock if you encountered a real libertarian community Nor is Silicon Valley anywhere CLOSE to libertarianism, Silicon Valley is extreme left Authoritarian While HN does love markets (though nor really free markets) most of HN is Socially Authoritarian left