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I don't think that's true at all, business has had to think about the public sphere and how to shape it to their benefit since corporations started. For a long
by epistasis 1y ago
I don't think that's true at all, business has had to think about the public sphere and how to shape it to their benefit since corporations started.
For a long time Silicon Valley tried to avoid politics, or at least that was the vibe of everyone. But even in the 1980s, when Japan was rising and threatening to outcompete the US semiconductor industry, Captains of Industry that had been former strident libertarians went hat in hand to Uncle Sam to tilt the field to favor their survival.
- mistrial9 1y agothere might be insight there, but.. too broad brush. As "everyone knows" Silicon Valley started as a dot-mil fab but California invented the personal computer and sold it. Hey wait, just California?! yes, mostly.. See the West Coast Computer Fair .. shout out to Byte Magazine from New England too. "avoid politics" was true for some stripes of participants and completely not true for others.. It is true IMHO that consumer gear generated a lot of success and was largely apolitical.
- Herring 1y agoYou missed the point. Yes I agree they're more concerned with "how to tilt the field", but that's not what good governance is (should be) about. It's a bit like a kid trying to push the bounds of acceptable behavior, versus a parent trying to figure out how to raise multiple kids well.
- CalChris 1y agoOne thing I've learned in my long life is that there ain't no such thing as a libertarian.