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> It's difficult for me to come up with a charitable reason why Sowell, an arch-conservative, is somehow interesting to HN That's pretty easy. It's because tec
by SquishyPanda23 6y ago
> It's difficult for me to come up with a charitable reason why Sowell, an arch-conservative, is somehow interesting to HN
That's pretty easy. It's because tech has a vocal arch-conservative contingent.
Why are there so many arch-conservatives in tech? I don't really have an answer to that.
- ardy42 6y ago> Why are there so many arch-conservatives in tech? I don't really have an answer to that. This might be of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology Tech has a lot of libertarians, which vaguely attribute to a couple of things: the appeal of simplistic but clean-seeming free market economic models to kinds of people who are drawn to computers and (to a lesser extent) the influence of startup culture. People in tech are also typically pretty economically secure, which gives them the luxury of a certain amount of aloofness.