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Some important takeaways, which are nevertheless not surprising: * its not about political affiliation (confidence drop higher in right-leaning groups)[1] * i

Some important takeaways, which are nevertheless not surprising: * its not about political affiliation (confidence drop higher in right-leaning groups)[1] * it is about education, the least educated show less confidence drop * it is about addiction, heavy users show less confidence drop [1] Though ultimately it is about politics, in the sense of what kind of market regulation one supports, the role of the public sector etc.

verisimi 3y ago
> * its not about political affiliation (confidence drop higher in right-leaning groups)[1] It's funny that you have to mention that its regardless of right-leaning groups suffering the greater drop. I guess we can now openly say that these companies do have left leaving political affiliation, but in some cases this simply isn't a factor.
- willis936 3y ago
  I'm not seeing the causation. Would you say government and taxes are left leaning concepts because right wing politics have goals of smaller government and less taxes?
  - humanrebar 3y ago
    I'm not sure the right wing is all that libertarian and small government these days. It all seems pretty team red versus team blue with plenty of dog whistling all around. But not many principles.
    - willis936 3y ago
      There was a tax cut that led to a deficit, which is causing calls from the right to reduce spending. This seems like a principled effort to reduce government and taxes to me.
      - humanrebar 3y ago
        But Trump is still the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, and he is clearly not a small government conservative or libertarian.
        wenebego 3y ago
        Hey, a monarchy is pretty small amount of people
        willis936 3y ago
        He is a tax reducing conservative though. It's his tax cut that caused the deficit. Executive tax cut, legislative government reduction. It's an efficient ratchet.
        JohnFen 3y ago
        > He is a tax reducing conservative though. For the wealthy and corporations.
        willis936 3y ago
        Yes that is where the money is.
    - AniseAbyss 3y ago
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- nologic01 3y ago
  surveillance capitalism is not "left leaning". get out of your bubble and start thinking
  - grotorea 3y ago
    I think the previous poster is talking about cultural left topics.
Nasrudith 3y ago
I think it is political. Given the right's current love affair with being told what they want to hear and misinformation suppression efforts it isn't too surprising that the end result is nobody is happy with them. The right is obvious. But the left has a knack for showing their usual level of gratitude and reasonability. They demand precognition, telepathy, and also a magical pony with wings. Thus they consider tech companies guilty for not delivering the impossible, the existence of all the problems of the world, compounded with the heinous crime of being a company.

verisimi 3y ago

> * its not about political affiliation (confidence drop higher in right-leaning groups)[1] It's funny that you have to mention that its regardless of right-leaning groups suffering the greater drop. I guess we can now openly say that these companies do have left leaving political affiliation, but in some cases this simply isn't a factor.

willis936 3y ago
I'm not seeing the causation. Would you say government and taxes are left leaning concepts because right wing politics have goals of smaller government and less taxes?
- humanrebar 3y ago
  I'm not sure the right wing is all that libertarian and small government these days. It all seems pretty team red versus team blue with plenty of dog whistling all around. But not many principles.
  - willis936 3y ago
    There was a tax cut that led to a deficit, which is causing calls from the right to reduce spending. This seems like a principled effort to reduce government and taxes to me.
    - humanrebar 3y ago
      But Trump is still the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, and he is clearly not a small government conservative or libertarian.
      - wenebego 3y ago
        Hey, a monarchy is pretty small amount of people
      - willis936 3y ago
        He is a tax reducing conservative though. It's his tax cut that caused the deficit. Executive tax cut, legislative government reduction. It's an efficient ratchet.
        JohnFen 3y ago
        > He is a tax reducing conservative though. For the wealthy and corporations.
        willis936 3y ago
        Yes that is where the money is.
  - AniseAbyss 3y ago
    [dead]
nologic01 3y ago
surveillance capitalism is not "left leaning". get out of your bubble and start thinking
- grotorea 3y ago
  I think the previous poster is talking about cultural left topics.

Nasrudith 3y ago

I think it is political. Given the right's current love affair with being told what they want to hear and misinformation suppression efforts it isn't too surprising that the end result is nobody is happy with them. The right is obvious. But the left has a knack for showing their usual level of gratitude and reasonability. They demand precognition, telepathy, and also a magical pony with wings. Thus they consider tech companies guilty for not delivering the impossible, the existence of all the problems of the world, compounded with the heinous crime of being a company.