Some of the very worst of the worst liberal takes, apologia for fascist shit, and of course cryptobro grifts and even Tesla worship keep coming from there. It’s fucked.

I don’t want to say all programmers or tech workers are like that, but I don’t like what I’ve seen so far from people with a .programming suffix on their names. disgost

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    Backing up this claim sadly.

    Programmers are usually either libertarian types, the worst type of radlib imaginable, or cool anarchists/communists and it skews heavily towards the first two.

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      I’ve noticed programmers leaning leftward the longer they’re in the workforce. Watching the machines of commerce from the inside has a very sobering effect, particularly if you’re not one of the guys getting paid out the nose for the privilege.

      But straight out of college? I’ll admit it. I was a Ron Paul guy.

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        Making something that can provide value to the company in perpetuity, and then having the company forget you did that and demand more, over and over again, while they’re still profiting off the first thing, really is some of the purest alienated labor.

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        I’ve noticed programmers leaning leftward the longer they’re in the workforce

        Explains a lot for me personally, and the surprisingly positive interactions with colleagues when politics are brought up