I’m surprised anybody has any doubts about the Bay Area being a fundamentally no-holds-barred capitalism hub, no different from NY or London on that front. Anti-capitalist voices get a lot of local airtime and signaling bandwidth but not a lot of actual power.
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Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Kevin Simler
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I don’t think either my take or the one I’m referencing is exactly unpopular
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Yeah I mean the anti-capitalist voices are like groom roasts. I love you too much to insult your tweeting Venkat
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But no they’re not affectionate groom roasts. East Bay socialists are crazy mad angry true socialists who want to burn down the tech scene. They just lack the means.
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Hmm... so more like, picket fence protestors outside G8 summits...? I was gonna bring up White House correspondence roasts as another eg
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Worse, these are true hostiles. Many want violence etc. Roasts are for players who see themselves as ultimately insiders of the same institutions. Rivals who share a playing field.
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Yes. If this were a developing country and they were much poorer they’d be like naxalites. They represent legit political interests that really are aligned against capitalism. I even agree with several positions, like for-profit prisons being evil.
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Kinda interesting to consider this in light of how the founding fathers (George Washington and co) must have seemed to the established political order at the time
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