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Having more people with leftwing/progressive politics involved and less libertarians would help.
by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Having more people with leftwing/progressive politics involved and less libertarians would help.
- hgsgm 4y agoMoney tends to make people into (faux) libertarians.
- epistasis 4y agoThere aren't that many libertarians in tech compared to other areas, in my experience. The difference is that some of the libertarians are very noisy about their politics, whereas most people in tech don't make that much public noise about politics. When you combine that dynamic with The NY Times deciding that it has to denigrate tech as an industry and take it down a few pegs (a literal mandate from their editors!), the jerks gain prominence, and tech looks the worse for it. And I would say that the PayPal mafia's sins aren't so much being libertarian as just being awful people that are super easy to hate. For example, musk calling that one guy a pedo, or taking pleasure in firing people. This assholery has now become synonymous with tech, but it is completely counter to my experiences in tech, but maybe I've just been lucky.