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Programmers (and people in quantitative fields in general) are hugely over represented as libertarians. I would say it's because they are able to objectively e
by smanek 17y ago
Programmers (and people in quantitative fields in general) are hugely over represented as libertarians.
I would say it's because they are able to objectively evaluate systems and come to better decisions - but that would be revealing my biases ;-)
- hexis 17y agoThey are also more comfortable with, and probably overly confident in, formal systems.
- Semiapies 17y agoThose sorts seem to like more government, not less. I suspect it's more an artifact of the time - government still tends to tread rather clumsily in the tech arena, making a lot of geeks warier of it than they would otherwise be.