Why is big tech overwhelmingly left leaning?

[Some Curious Person]

Does the right not know how2code?

 

[Billy Beer]

The left are usually artists, poets, writers, creators etc. They live in imaginationland (not a dig) and big tech is the modern day equivilent of an art gallery.

The right are typically pragmatic and get shit done in the here and now, which doesn't lend itself to sitting behind an easel or computer screen.

Mostly.

 

[MrTroll]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco

 

[stupid orc]

The cope and seethe in this thread is hilarious. The answer is simple. Conservatives have lower IQ on average, Embracing new ideas is difficult for them, since they are retarded. New tech is the antithesis of the classic bumpkin conservative, and like most things scares them easily.

(((IQ))), weak bait.

 

[cybertoaster]

Most tech centers tend to be located at or near extremely left-wing cities like berkeley and san francisco

Many coders are nerds, nerds get bullied a lot so they go woke thinking they will be tolerated more (see linus' fat bald coworker that actually does eveything) but in reality the wokes also hate nerds, perhaps even more because their autism makes them invulnerable to their retarded dogma

And then theres women:

Imagine thinking a guy who simply shuts up and does his job is a brogrammer, do they even know what the term means?

 

[Lurk McDurk]

There is no left in the United States.

Che Guevara is left.

The Provo IRA is left.

The Viet Cong is left.

What you have in the US is a bunch of corporate stooges whose only master is money (which is a function of PR), sticking their fingers in the breeze and seeing which way they want to steer the culture war distractions on any given day, to distract people from all of the Pajeets and Fong Shuis they're importing as indentured H1B servants.

 

[Jarolleon]

Because leftism appeals to people who think they can remake society with the correct programming-the fundamental coder's fantasy.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Teannies + Autism

 

[Mooner]

I work in Big Tech. There are right leaning people here, but you can never outwardly project that. You have to put your head down and shut the fuck up, or else you lose your job. Most people just go along with it and pretend because HR is overwhelmingly full of screechingly woke SJW types.

See: the Google thing that guy (who promptly got fired afterwards) wrote a few years ago on their internal message board.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Because it's a bottleneck, and leftists exert all their efforts controlling bottlenecks. As a result, everything that's not one of them either shuts up or is purged.

Tech jobs are (or were) well paid and relatively high status, so the field attracts a lot of sociopathic strivers (aka, libtards). Their insane ideology is basically a sign that you're a member of the social parasite email job class, which is why it constantly changes; you need a way to weed out people who are insincere and not totally devoted to hyper-competition, and of course a way to take out rivals.

Libtards are the social equivalent of school shooters, in that they take out their frustration and dysfunctions on society at large and especially normal people who just want to be left alone. Because they have nothing else going on in their lives and they are too incompetent to survive without outside intervention, they are the perfect tools for oligarchs such as Jeff Bezos to elevate to positions of power. If he does so, their status and lifestyle is totally dependent on him and on their acceptance by the rest of the social parasite class, so they behave as fanatical berserkers in keeping everyone on their side in line and in attacking perceived enemies (the people on whom they are parasites).

tl;dr

Libtards are literally just bandits and thieves, and should be treated as such.

lol calm down

 

[The Littlest Shitlord]

Tech is dominated by young people, partly because older people either can't understand it because of the rigidity of age, partly because they aren't interested, and partly because age discrimination is absolutely rampant in the industry despite being illegal. Young people skew left. Also, tech is full of autists, and autists are weak against all social-elemental attacks that their obliviousness doesn't no-sell. And the left has been making a massive social push for their agenda for decades. In particular, autism makes you mentally ill and miserable and most people don't understand it very well because it wasn't common until recently, so that makes autists easy prey for trans ideology when it is pitched as a cure for all your problems (much like Dianetics).

 

[stares at error messages]

You are being fooled by the Smokescreen.

Ask, "Who is Elliott capital?"

 

[biozeminadae1]

Most tech centers tend to be located at or near extremely left-wing cities like berkeley and san francisco

Many coders are nerds, nerds get bullied a lot so they go liberal thinking they will be tolerated more (see linus' fat bald coworker that actually does eveything) but in reality the liberals also hate nerds, perhaps even more because their autism makes them invulnerable to their retarded dogma

And then theres women:
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Imagine thinking a guy who simply shuts up and does his job is a brogrammer, do they even know what the term means?

Women make it really easy for men to hate them.

 

[MysticLord]

Remember when you saw a computy for the first time and were like 'What's this new fangled invention?? It looks like a devil machine!,'

I design web sites and mobile apps for a living. Are you sure you're not projecting?

If open discussion bothers you so much, you can always go back to your libtard containment and hugbox threads to discuss gendered physics and dilation. We won't bother you there.

There is no left in the United States.

Che Guevara is left.

The Provo IRA is left.

The Viet Cong is left.

What you have in the US is a bunch of corporate stooges whose only master is money (which is a function of PR), sticking their fingers in the breeze and seeing which way they want to steer the culture war distractions on any given day, to distract people from all of the Pajeets and Fong Shuis they're importing as indentured H1B servants.

I would unironically vote for a hardcore tankie Marxist over a Democrat. Marxists are correct that class is the biggest factor in a person's political leanings and behavior, that LGBTQI+P stuff is a distraction being waved about by oligarchs, and that lumpenproles (Democrats) work to keep oligarchs (also Democrats) in power.

lol calm down

What did he mean by this?

 

[moseph.jartelli]

I design web sites and mobile apps for a living. Are you sure you're not projecting?

It's a joke, but as someone who has been online since before Web 1.0, I find it funny that people question why there aren't more conservatives in tech. Conservatives historically do NOT like change, and especially rapid change, which is the crux of tech. Conservatives of the early internet age were more of the 'christian conservative' type than today. The tech scene was not trusted by a lot of people, but less so by conservatives. They might have invested money, but rarely got hands on with it. The culture of tech has been liberal since inception, so it's likely to stay that way for a long time. I just think the answer is obvious.

 

[MysticLord]

It's a joke, but as someone who has been online since before Web 1.0, I find it funny that people question why there aren't more conservatives in tech. Conservatives historically do NOT like change, and especially rapid change, which is the crux of tech. Conservatives of the early internet age were more of the 'christian conservative' type than today. The tech scene was not trusted by a lot of people, but less so by conservatives. They might have invested money, but rarely got hands on with it. The culture of tech has been liberal since inception, so it's likely to stay that way for a long time. I just think the answer is obvious.

And how has tech and especially design improved since that point?

 

[moseph.jartelli]

And how has tech and especially design improved since that point?

User friendly interfaces has been the biggest design improvement in the last 30 years I would say. It's dumbed down enough for 3 year olds to navigate.

 

[MysticLord]

User friendly interfaces has been the biggest design improvement in the last 30 years I would say. It's dumbed down enough for 3 year olds to navigate.

Why is that a good thing?

 

[moseph.jartelli]

Why is that a good thing?

I didn't say it was. The internet became what it would become. Once the web became viable, and normies could use it, the money making side really blew up, and now there is lots of trash all over it. Social Media was the worst part. I don't blame tech companies. I blame the users. They voluntarily became retarded online and many traded real life for a virtual one

 

[MysticLord]

I didn't say it was. The internet became what it would become. Once the web became viable, and normies could use it, the money making side really blew up, and now there is lots of trash all over it. Social Media was the worst part. I don't blame tech companies. I blame the users. They voluntarily became retarded online and many traded real life for a virtual one

The only part I disagree with is the money making part. I've never seen any evidence that online ads work. The only ways to make money I can see on the internet are shops, pay to post communities, services, games as a (somehow) paid service, and subscription based interactions.

Most VC stuff glows so bright you can see it from Mars, is a scam, or it's obviously someone paying to shut out competitors so they can control political discourse and rent seek in government sectors (in which case you're paying journalists and associated scum to restrain people while you rob them).

Ads are in my opinion a scam, and a money laundering operation. They make people money only in very limited circumstances where things would spread by word of mouth anyways.

 

[moseph.jartelli]

The only part I disagree with is the money making part. I've never seen any evidence that online ads work. The only ways to make money I can see on the internet are shops, pay to post communities, services, games as a (somehow) paid service, and subscription based interactions.

Most VC stuff glows so bright you can see it from Mars, is a scam, or it's obviously someone paying to shut out competitors so they can control political discourse and rent seek in government sectors (in which case you're paying journalists and associated scum to restrain people while you rob them).

Ads are in my opinion a scam, and a money laundering operation. They make people money only in very limited circumstances where things would spread by word of mouth anyways.

Yeah that's what I mean. Amazon, online shopping etc... ads are stupid but Facebook etc are the ones making money from them, not the advertisers per se. The social side and web interface is what attracted all the normies online.

In '91 if I said I was on the 'Internet' it would been met with 'Interwhat?' And then 'haha computer nerd'

In '96 those same kids were like 'ooooh can't wait to get home and get on AOL IM after school'