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You can't reduce things to one dimension, I agree, but I disagree that left vs right is unimportant. When largely liberal city people migrate into largely conse
by silicon2401 6y ago
You can't reduce things to one dimension, I agree, but I disagree that left vs right is unimportant. When largely liberal city people migrate into largely conservative places, there's gonna be some conflict. Not to mention a lot of these tech workers are liberal and have money, so they'll be empowered to support changes that the locals may not be on board with but also may not have the means to combat effectively.
- kjs3 6y agoI agree with your first two sentences, then I think you loose your way. SFO is a 'liberal' city, but the idea the tech people are majority liberal as well needs a strong does of supporting evidence. My own observation is that much like the rest of the rest of the populace, it's a spectrum. I have talked to many SFO folks looking to move out of there specifically because they want to be somewhere 'conservative', usually using more colorful language. And I also have some doubts about the whole 'techies are going to come here and take over' trope. Sure, they will influence things (money always does), but entrenched political and social structures don't just melt away overnight. They know the rules of the game because they made them. I live in a pretty lefty area that's also pretty desirable to live in, and periodically you'll get an influx of individuals from other places that make noise about some aspect of the area that isn't conservative enough for them (taxation, commonly) and how they're going to change things. And the incumbent political actors spin up and work the system and it usually goes nowhere. I suspect you'll see much more of that than radical changes brought on by the arrival of tech money.
- p1necone 6y agoYou only have to look at any slightly politically charged topic on HN to see that there are plenty of far far right wingers in tech. Edit: see I'm even being downvoted by them now :D
- nomdep 6y agoMany techies are individualistic. That used to be considered left-leaning, but in the last years some people have been pushing the idea that is something from the right, instead. We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us.
- adamsea 6y agoDo these individualistic people wear masks or is that to collectivist? That’s the dealbreaker question for me right now. Point being, even individualists are part of a community.