Economic leftism might be associated with less risk-taking, but why do startup founders - people who often take huge risks - tend to skew socially left? It coul

Economic leftism might be associated with less risk-taking, but why do startup founders - people who often take huge risks - tend to skew socially left? It could probably be partly explained by sociological reasons (might be harder to get support/funding if you're perceived as more socially conservative than average), but even accounting for that, I suspect it's mostly correlated with sincere political belief. That's one problem with studies like this, as the authors point out. Is Paul Graham liberal or conservative in this binary? I think most conservatives in the US would say liberal, but many liberals, and perhaps even most liberals in his general sphere, might say he's conservative due to "complaining about SJWs and the intolerance of the left on Twitter almost daily, and routinely and proactively arguing in favor of lowering taxes for corporations and very wealthy people". (The obvious answer is he's neither [http://www.paulgraham.com/mod.html http://www.paulgraham.com/mod.html] and it's too hard to fit many people into a one-word binary.) One could also claim conservatives are by definition averse to change and so risk-averse. They (in this contrived weakman argument) are more likely to want to avoid risks from immigration, the demographics of their community shifting, their industry changing and the possibility of having to find a new kind of job, newly developed vaccines, theological consequences of permitting sinful behavior, etc. These are all intellectually lazy arguments, but the point is I don't think one can reliably sum up "a conservative" or "a liberal" - whatever that is - as being more or less risk-taking.