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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.
When/how did things start to change?
I know that many young people see the events of 2008 as a failure of capitalism. Perhaps that's why?
And they probably view 2016 and 2024 as a failure of democracy. Or voters failed democracy by voting for fascism.
When did the economics sub Reddit purge all the Ron Paul libertarians?
2009? 2010?
Yeh, I think it was around 2010.
Over the course of a few months most of the mod team was replaced. It went from a place that was about 60/40 austrian to keynesian content to >95% keynesian.
Haven't been back there in many years, so not sure what the current slant is (betting it hasn't changed that much)
I'm not sure. I didn't start using Reddit until much later. By then you had to go to more fringe subs like ancap, although libertarian was still ok.
- Bush
- Iraq
- Obama
- news. YCombinator. com asturfing
is what happened, imo
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
That’s interesting. Maybe once it became a major profession the types of people pursuing it changed.
that seems like a very plausible hypothesis
Reddit is a good example of how echo chambers are created by purging dissent.
I made a comment on Reddit recently in north county San Diego subreddit. I quoted a passage from WSJ editorial. One reply was you demonstrated that you get your news from social media.
Where do kids get their news today? Please tell me it’s not corporate legacy media
I assume they get their news from online influencers.
YouTube
TikTok
Instagram
Snap chat
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.