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215 sats \ 17 replies \ @freetx 25 Jun \ parent \ on: Are software engineers more likely to be socialist? AskSN
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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120 sats \ 10 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 25 Jun
When/how did things start to change?
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182 sats \ 9 replies \ @freetx 25 Jun
I would say about 2010 was the watershed moment. Not sure why though? Generational? Social media?
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 15h
When did the economics sub Reddit purge all the Ron Paul libertarians? 2009? 2010?
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx 15h
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)
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 15h
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.
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157 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 25 Jun
I know that many young people see the events of 2008 as a failure of capitalism. Perhaps that's why?
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76 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 25 Jun
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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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 15h
And they probably view 2016 and 2024 as a failure of democracy. Or voters failed democracy by voting for fascism.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 26 Jun
  • Bush
  • Iraq
  • Obama
  • news. YCombinator. com asturfing
is what happened, imo
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 25 Jun
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 26 Jun 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
71 sats \ 0 replies \ @DEADBEEF 25 Jun
This shift has always puzzled me and for whatever reason the enshittification of tech followed shortly afterwards.
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45 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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52 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 25 Jun
that seems like a very plausible hypothesis
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 15h
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
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 15h
I assume they get their news from online influencers.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 15h
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