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> Tech companies, perhaps until very recently, have been extremely left-leaning. No, none of the big for profit, often venture-capital funded or publicly trade
by dragonwriter 2y ago
> Tech companies, perhaps until very recently, have been extremely left-leaning.
No, none of the big for profit, often venture-capital funded or publicly traded, firms in the tech industry have been advocates for any of the pro-labor and anti-capitalist ideologies that define the left. Being (often only performatively) on the Democratic side of some of the culture war issues between the centrist Democratic Party and the hard-right Republican Party while spending lots of money to keep the Democratic Party strongly committed to corporate capitalism doesn't make them even slightly left-leaning.
- robertlagrant 2y agoOf course it does. "Left" describes more than economics. You might say, that makes left-right a bad range, and you'd be right at that point, but I think it's pretty obvious what aspects of left/rightism I meant.