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90%+ of Alphabet employee donations go to one party [1]. So, that affiliation. [1] https://www.govpredict.com/blog/alphabets-political-contributions/ https://w

90%+ of Alphabet employee donations go to one party [1]. So, that affiliation. [1] https://www.govpredict.com/blog/alphabets-political-contributions/ https://www.govpredict.com/blog/alphabets-political-contribu...

NikolaeVarius 6y ago
Its well established the educated tend to vote left. This is not the same as affiliation
- bsagdiyev 6y ago
  I’m educated. I don’t vote left or right typically even though my vote is pointless in California, does that make me uneducated now?
  - NikolaeVarius 6y ago
    Clearly there is a logic flow problem if you equate "educated means you tend to vote left" == "not voting left means you're not educated"
- spijdar 6y ago
  Exit polls for the 2020 election show that there was an almost 50/50 split between Biden and Trump across multiple ascending education levels, the only exceptions are those with a postgraduate education, who voted 62/37 for Biden/Trump.
  - marz0 6y ago
    This graph[0] shows that there's a difference between college degree vs no college degree. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1184427/presidential-election-exit-polls-share-votes-education-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1184427/presidential-ele...
    - danaris 6y ago
      The graph (or at least its legend?) appears to be paywalled. (...OK, it looks like they will let you view it for free, but only if you sign up, aka let them sell your personal data.)
- deleted 6y ago
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- mrweasel 6y ago
  I’m not going to pretent to under the US politician system, but isn’t kinda weird that the employees of a single company almost exclusively vote the same way? Doesn’t that show a huge lack of diversity?
  - NikolaeVarius 6y ago
    I dont know why you think the overall donation rates of an entire company of employees is the same thing as the voting rates of individual employees. The article notes that Eric Schmidt is one of the largest donors that are included. The article makes no claims as to the relation to amount donated per employee who even bothered to donate.
  - rangoon626 6y ago
    The only care about diversity as a tool to further their own agenda. Countless examples of big tech attacking or ousting diverse people who voiced their own opinion that was contra to the narrative.
  - rsynnott 6y ago
    In any country where voting preferences are strongly correlated with education (like the US, where it's particularly strong, but this effect exists in most places to some extent) you'd expect this sort of thing when looking at a company that generally mostly hired highly educated people. _Age_ is likely also a factor. Google's employee base would be younger than many companies, but in general employees of most companies would be likely to vote more for the left in the US than the general population, because people above working age are more likely to vote for the right.
ttt0 6y ago
Previous CEO of Google essentially worked for Hillary Clinton campaign in the 2016 elections. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/37262#efmAC9AE0 https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/37262#efmAC9AE0
tzs 6y ago
That's employee donations. Donations from Google are nearly evenly split most years [1]. [1] https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/google-inc/C00428623/summary/2020 https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs...

NikolaeVarius 6y ago

Its well established the educated tend to vote left. This is not the same as affiliation

bsagdiyev 6y ago
I’m educated. I don’t vote left or right typically even though my vote is pointless in California, does that make me uneducated now?
- NikolaeVarius 6y ago
  Clearly there is a logic flow problem if you equate "educated means you tend to vote left" == "not voting left means you're not educated"
spijdar 6y ago
Exit polls for the 2020 election show that there was an almost 50/50 split between Biden and Trump across multiple ascending education levels, the only exceptions are those with a postgraduate education, who voted 62/37 for Biden/Trump.
- marz0 6y ago
  This graph[0] shows that there's a difference between college degree vs no college degree. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1184427/presidential-election-exit-polls-share-votes-education-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1184427/presidential-ele...
  - danaris 6y ago
    The graph (or at least its legend?) appears to be paywalled. (...OK, it looks like they will let you view it for free, but only if you sign up, aka let them sell your personal data.)
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mrweasel 6y ago
I’m not going to pretent to under the US politician system, but isn’t kinda weird that the employees of a single company almost exclusively vote the same way? Doesn’t that show a huge lack of diversity?
- NikolaeVarius 6y ago
  I dont know why you think the overall donation rates of an entire company of employees is the same thing as the voting rates of individual employees. The article notes that Eric Schmidt is one of the largest donors that are included. The article makes no claims as to the relation to amount donated per employee who even bothered to donate.
- rangoon626 6y ago
  The only care about diversity as a tool to further their own agenda. Countless examples of big tech attacking or ousting diverse people who voiced their own opinion that was contra to the narrative.
- rsynnott 6y ago
  In any country where voting preferences are strongly correlated with education (like the US, where it's particularly strong, but this effect exists in most places to some extent) you'd expect this sort of thing when looking at a company that generally mostly hired highly educated people. _Age_ is likely also a factor. Google's employee base would be younger than many companies, but in general employees of most companies would be likely to vote more for the left in the US than the general population, because people above working age are more likely to vote for the right.

ttt0 6y ago

Previous CEO of Google essentially worked for Hillary Clinton campaign in the 2016 elections. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/37262#efmAC9AE0 https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/37262#efmAC9AE0

tzs 6y ago

That's employee donations. Donations from Google are nearly evenly split most years [1]. [1] https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/google-inc/C00428623/summary/2020 https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs...