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Its interesting to see just how MAGA-ajacent the comments are on hacker news. You would think most people in tech were more liberal.
by yokoprime 18d ago
Its interesting to see just how MAGA-ajacent the comments are on hacker news. You would think most people in tech were more liberal.
- dagmx 18d agoTech communities like this skew more libertarian I find, which tends to be anti everything that isn’t immediately self serving.
- danans 18d ago> Tech communities like this skew more libertarian Indeed, this is historically a forum with lots of "temporarily embarrassed billionaires". My observation is the opposite of the GP - that labor identity and consciousness (not "liberalism") is rising here, pushed in no small part by the transformation in labor value that LLMs have caused.
- zmgsabst 18d agoObama -> Bernie -> Trump is real.
- DaSHacka 17d agoAre you.... me?
- ChrisRR 18d agoI think it's more interesting to see how many profiles pop out of the woodwork when certain political topics arise
- pjc50 18d agoSince the days of USENET there's always been a significant cluster of that kind of views in the tech sphere. Tech does not magically make people more liberal, it's just that going to university sometimes does.