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182 sats \ 9 replies \ @freetx 25 Jun \ parent \ on: Are software engineers more likely to be socialist? AskSN

I would say about 2010 was the watershed moment. Not sure why though? Generational? Social media?

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)

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.

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?

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.

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.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 26 Jun

Bush
Iraq
Obama
news. YCombinator. com asturfing

is what happened, imo

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?

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