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How is a mecca for wealthy tech workers supposed to be a progressive utopia. Theres really not any such thing in the USA. Not that I'm aware of.
by breakyerself 5y ago
How is a mecca for wealthy tech workers supposed to be a progressive utopia. Theres really not any such thing in the USA. Not that I'm aware of.
- salt-thrower 5y agoYeah, I wish someone would explain how a city with perhaps the biggest concentration of wealth inequality in the world, fueled by nearly-unfettered speculative venture capital gambling on unethical tech companies, is a "progressive utopia." These headlines are clickbait. I wish The Atlantic was better than this, but I know it's not.
- google234123 5y agoOnly 12% of voters vote for the right wing party in SF. How much more one-sided to the left could a place get?
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- salt-thrower 5y agoYou're claiming that because most people vote Democrat, it must be a progressive utopia? The Democrat party is barely a left-leaning party. You have famous national examples like AOC and Bernie who are very progressive, but by and large, most Democrats are happy to accede to corporate power and regressive policies when it actually matters. What is considered "radical left" here in America is basically centrist by the standards of the rest of the world.
- breakyerself 5y agoProgressive and not right wing are not the same thing.
- gadders 5y agoThere has never been one in all of human history.
- xdennis 5y agoCalifornia doesn't revolve around tech workers alone. Of course there's no progressive utopia. That's what utopia means: "no place". But California is incredibly progressive compared to other states in the US. BTW, here's another piece on progressive hypocrisy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw