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>The fact that Silicon Valley overwhelmingly supports the Democratic Party - at North Korean Levels Silicon Valley overwhelmingly supports Democratic politicia
by scythe 6y ago
>The fact that Silicon Valley overwhelmingly supports the Democratic Party - at North Korean Levels
Silicon Valley overwhelmingly supports Democratic politicians. But Silicon Valley is also one of the most welcoming ears for the kinds of reforms that would upend the current party system, to wit proportional representation and non-plurality voting. That's a pretty big asterisk: nobody in North Korea can get away with promoting reforms that would destroy the party system!
It's also worth noting that the reason that Silicon Valley appears to, by their silence, always support the status quo, is because the tech companies know you hate them. Having the motto "Don't be evil" implies an understood risk of being evil. FANGMOAT knows that if they support any dramatic reform, there is a severe risk of a backlash effect that reduces support for that reform.
As such, the idea that tech companies serve as a power projection mechanism for the Democratic Party is in my opinion a coincidence of temporarily aligned motives and not a true ideological alliance. Tech company employees support the Democrats for a variety of reasons, but, in particular, many become pro-immigrant by meeting a few of them and most understand that climate science is not a conspiracy.
- Avicebron 6y agocould knowing they are hated be a chicken or egg problem, maybe they are hated because they know what they are doing is supporting entrenched interests while pretending to be virtuous.
- scythe 6y agoNo, tech companies aren't disliked for their politics. That's like saying they're disliked for their style of dress (suits were as much a symbol of the detached elite as hoodies are today!). It's their money and their influence on the wider culture by way of spending. It's practically guaranteed to create resentment regardless of what the preferences are simply because it is inevitably a force being exerted on people's lives. Then of course there are the actual harmful effects of social media on human beings as distinguished from supposed communist infiltration. That generates plenty of resentment as well. Then there's the fact that in many cases tech companies make products that are ultimately used by employers to track and control their employees ("business intelligence") and which serve as opaque arbiters of things like paychecks, time clocks and tax forms. This isn't Google, of course, but tech companies serve as a mascot for the digital revolution at large, hence the mythology surrounding Bill Gates. Many if not most of the annoyances of computerization get blamed on the tech industry, fairly or not.