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. 
It doesn’t get much better IRL, these are people making 6 figures in their 20s getting hailed as intelligent professionals on the level of doctors and engineers without any of the years of rigorous practice. The average person in tech is living in a completely different reality to the average worker.
I live a bus trip away from Silicon Valley; it’s bad. Very bad.
Bookstore conversations with them (often unsolicited toward me) go up to and just about reach excerpts of Mein Kampf.
I’ve heard things from techbros that were last uttered out loud by a 1920s eugenicist, genuinely no option but to hit them with the
I directly received the argument, in public, that “eugenics is an objectively good thing actually, but sadly isn’t likely to be put into practice because humans are too emotional about it, which eugenics would also fix.”
It’s like you’ve just walked into the RL equivalent of a SlateStarCodex thread. Can’t chat with those types without going home and scrubbing harder than Lady Macbeth.
The most fucked up part is when they drop little smug hints or just namedrop the LessWrong cult and seem more surprised than anything that I recognize what they think is mystical, secret, and elite insider knowledge. Even calling it a cult doesn’t seem to startle them as much as just calling out that their secret club isn’t secret to me.
There are Freemason tells that are more secret and the Freemasons have been leaking like a sieve since the 1700s.
“Uhh we’re like the ultra secret dark arts dojo of super special thinking” Fuck off you discovered basic rhetoric. You didn’t even independently discover basic rhetoric which at least would be impressive for a 14 year old.
They want to be noticed but also want to be held in awe as mysterious sorcerers that command the future.
They’re just cryptofascist nerds pretending to be “nonpolitical.”
Software developers don’t realize they are blue collar workers and will be crushed underboot as soon as their jobs can be automated by AI or whatever.
“Why don’t you just learn to code?”
wages plummet as the qualified labor force expands faster than the job market
“No not like that!”
But mostly only in the imperial core and also there are fewer and fewer opportunities. The time of blue markets is getting more and more over.
And at that point, some will realize it was mostly luck that got them there, and become reasonably normal. Ohers will double down on their belief in meritocracy, which all of society has been reinforcing, especially in big tech and startup culture. That belief in meritocracy is the cornerstone of all reactionary politics.
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