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88 sats \ 11 replies \ @Undisciplined 25 Jun \ parent \ on: Are software engineers more likely to be socialist? AskSN
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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205 sats \ 10 replies \ @freetx 25 Jun
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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61 sats \ 0 replies \ @DEADBEEF 21h
This shift has always puzzled me and for whatever reason the enshittification of tech followed shortly afterwards.
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35 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 25 Jun
That’s interesting. Maybe once it became a major profession the types of people pursuing it changed.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 25 Jun
that seems like a very plausible hypothesis
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110 sats \ 6 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 25 Jun
When/how did things start to change?
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172 sats \ 5 replies \ @freetx 23h
I would say about 2010 was the watershed moment. Not sure why though? Generational? Social media?
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147 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 23h
I know that many young people see the events of 2008 as a failure of capitalism. Perhaps that's why?
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66 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 21h
2008 was the year that capitalism failed, by preventing... failure!
Failure is the critical mechanism for maintaining efficiency, and bail-outs prevented market efficiency. Commies won, capitalism failed, because it was discontinued.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 13h
  • Bush
  • Iraq
  • Obama
  • news. YCombinator. com asturfing
is what happened, imo
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 21h
Big tech.
It happened during the same time that "hacker" was suddenly synonym for a FB employee with 7 PhDs and 3 lines of code to their name... 2009?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @a8af60953f 13h freebie
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