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The Nation: Silicon Valley is fully MAGA-Pilled (www.thenation.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seeing a sudden surge in interest in the "Tech Right" as they're being dubbed. Often the focus is on business motivations like tax breaks but I think there's more to it. The narrative that silicon Valley is a bunch of tech hippies was well sown early on, particularly by Stewart Brand and his ilk but throughout that period and prior, the intersection between tech and authoritative politics that favours systems over people is well established.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A bunch of rich people with questionable morals like having easily influenceable people in power. Especially now that it is legal for presidents to take bribes.

Silicon valley isn't what it used to be

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Silicon Valley is fundamentally the same as it's always been, it's just a bigger scale

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Specifically, the nerdy-hippy-freethinker cohort did not flourish at anywhere close to the same scale as the get-rich-quick segment of the population as this modern gold rush emerged.

Most tech bros would be stock brokers if born a couple decades earlier.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Oh don't you worry, with FinTech they can be both!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

With a whole lot more power