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You could say the same about "techies" who have the same or less knowledge of how politics works.
by mjwalshe 15y ago
You could say the same about "techies" who have the same or less knowledge of how politics works.
- raldi 15y agoI don't see techies wearing political ignorance as a cute badge of honor. When they want to restrict the rights of politicians, they learn about politics.
- samstave 15y agoDo we not have a standardized org structure for the support staff of each politician: Who is in the following roles as an aide to each congressman? * Technology Consultant * Foreign Policy * Energy * Agriculture .... etc. We should be able to reach out to EACH layer of aides for all of congress and say "To all the congressional technical advisors, as silicon valley reps, this is our stance on issue X" These aides should then go to each congressman and say "this is what the tech on the street is saying" and inform them of opinion and reality. The current system is DESIGNED to keep stupid.
- mjwalshe 15y agoNo they assume whatever half baked idea they make up recall from reading Ayn Rynd will work in the real world. take the widely held view that companies should have "all" their rights removed - the debate about personhood. Do you realy want to end up with a system where any company could be taken over or shut down by political fiat - hint threes a reason Russian companies list in the UK its so they are perceived not to have the political risk.
- cristianl 15y ago"Techies" who relish their own political ignorance are not making laws that regulate the lives and jobs of other citizens.
- icebraining 15y agoMany still vote, though.
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoWow. I thought we ran the world, through our devices, code, networks etc. In fact, the politicians are mostly concerned about reigning US in, right? That means we have the real power. So, as many important scientists in history have mentioned, isn't it irresponsible of us to remain politically ignorant?
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