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110 sats \ 6 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 25 Jun \ parent \ on: Are software engineers more likely to be socialist? AskSN
When/how did things start to change?
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172 sats \ 5 replies \ @freetx 25 Jun
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 14h
  • 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 14h 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