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120 sats \ 10 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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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 14h
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