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I would say about 2010 was the watershed moment. Not sure why though? Generational? Social media?
I know that many young people see the events of 2008 as a failure of capitalism. Perhaps that's why?
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.
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
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?
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
When/how did things start to change?