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112 sats \ 15 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 25 Jun \ parent \ on: Are software engineers more likely to be socialist? AskSN
So you think it comes from a place of thinking that society just needs to be engineered by smart people and then we'd all be happy
Yep, it’s just run of the mill technocracy, which they’re basically unaware has failed repeatedly already or they think it failed because the “right” people were never in charge.
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I think you are basically right....but as a Gen-Xer who has been in tech since the late 80s, it wasn't always like this.
The tech scene was decidedly libertarian borderline AnCap from 80s - mid-2000s.
I mean reddit was basically Ron Paul HQ Central at its founding.
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That’s interesting. Maybe once it became a major profession the types of people pursuing it changed.
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that seems like a very plausible hypothesis
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When/how did things start to change?
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I know that many young people see the events of 2008 as a failure of capitalism. Perhaps that's why?
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- Bush
- Iraq
- Obama
- news. YCombinator. com asturfing
is what happened, imo
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Operation Wall Street was coopted by the feds. Turned it into feminism, gay rights, trans rights. There's a meme that compares transsexualism with nerds to crack in the 80s
No, the issue stems from the university system these engineers are coming out of. It’s part of a broader trend among graduates. They’re taught that capitalism and corporations are inherently evil, even as they draw six-figure salaries from those same companies.
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At least one of the people I'm thinking of didn't go to college, so I'm not sure that's it.
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