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Why Are Tech Companies So Liberal?
Richochet ^ | May 2016 | Ulysses768

Posted on 05/20/2016 9:34:37 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

Good article by tech worker suggesting his theory of demographics, artistic license and college indoctrination.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: amazon; fb; google; liberal; ms
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

I think it has something to do with the much higher percentage of women who work there... as opposed to traditionally men-dominated industries such as steel, mining cement etc or other types of manufacturing. I sure have met plenty of conservative minded women but when you have large numbers of them in one place, socialist programs and free stuff tend to dominate more since the issue of raising families while trying to work comes into play.


21 posted on 05/20/2016 10:23:38 AM PDT by hecticskeptic (In life it's important to know what you believe�.but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

The tech industry set up shop in already liberal places and adapted to the political environment.


22 posted on 05/20/2016 10:26:08 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

It is not just “new” high tech start ups...

Lockheed Martin refused to be associated with the Boy Scouts after generations of cooperation. The same year they provided benefits to same sex couples.

While crying they had no more money for future pensions and had to chop benefits again...


23 posted on 05/20/2016 10:30:54 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

greed/guilt/moral superiority cognitive trissonance.


24 posted on 05/20/2016 10:40:30 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

1. Kinsey’s with Rockefeller found it was good that people were sexualy promiscuous as it would not manufacture competitors but diletante shoppers. Moreover, nothing like a little girl’s rebelious attitude and a whore wife to make them exploit a husband’s money to pay and finance some Target manager’s bottom line.

2. Communists have replaced religion as a PR voice protecting their Socially Correct or “charitable” PR stunts. So instead of having to feel guilty for not saving a Jew in Dachau or a Christian in Syria, they get approval by communists to fck off so long they fund the right communist lawyer political group


25 posted on 05/20/2016 10:42:27 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

Tech companies are leftist for they same reason most media companies are: they are located in urban areas where the hiring pool is mostly Democrat. High population density isn’t just correlated with leftism, it actually causes it.


26 posted on 05/20/2016 11:47:51 AM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

Because computer programmers are wimpy nerds.


27 posted on 05/20/2016 11:53:03 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: donna

“Corporations are the same as godless government entities. They are dictatorships”

Is that you, Bernie?


28 posted on 05/20/2016 12:16:13 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

Immaturity.


29 posted on 05/20/2016 12:19:35 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: Heavyrunner

“Tech companies tend to be dominated by 20-30somethings who adopt the view that being liberal is “cool.””

What about the rest of the companies - Target, Walmart, GE, Macy’s, etc. etc. 90+% of large companies are run by liberals and they are not 20 something.


30 posted on 05/20/2016 12:22:55 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

I was referring to tech companies in general, but I don’t think Target and Walmart ARE liberal in general.

They’ll pay lip service to liberal causes that don’t impact their bottom line — like transgender bathrooms —while avoiding a $15 minimum wage and unionization to their dying breath.

I think retailers especially try to thread a tricky political needle, protecting their margins and competitive edge wherever they can. I view most of their social activism as a distraction so they can point to being on the front lines of social justice when their trade practices and labor circumstances are in the spotlight.


31 posted on 05/20/2016 12:38:42 PM PDT by Heavyrunner (Socialize this.)
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To: aquila48

What do you think corporations are?


32 posted on 05/20/2016 12:42:35 PM PDT by donna (Forcing men into womenÂ’s spaces is the beginning of Sharia Law in the USA.)
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To: donna

Let me ask you a question, Bernie...

You said corporations are dictatorships - have any of these dictatorships ever stopped you from quitting them and choosing to go work for another evil dictatorship?

I bet you also consider yourself a slave, right Bernie.


33 posted on 05/20/2016 2:55:48 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48
Let me ask you a question Mr.Zuckerberg

Is anyone allowed to have an opinion different than yours?

34 posted on 05/20/2016 3:39:46 PM PDT by donna (Forcing men into womenÂ’s spaces is the beginning of Sharia Law in the USA.)
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To: donna

Bernie, since this is still a free country (sort of) of course you’re allowed to voice any opinion you wish, even if it’s dumb.

And since you hate dictatorships I take it you also wouldn’t mind if I voice my opinion of your opinion, right? :)


35 posted on 05/20/2016 4:09:16 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Zathras

Ding Ding Ding

I am a tech professor and IT consultant and in my opinion if Google, MS, Amazon and Apple were this high profile RIGHT LEANING during 0bama they would have had a severe hair cut.

I ask freepers to think back to when Bill and Bill went golfing on Martha’s Vineyard.

The TOON asked Gates for a contribution, and Gates responded with MS’es standard 50 K. Within a few weeks Dyke Reno filed the paperwork and sued MS for antitrust violations.

On the other hand when conservatives are in power, they tend to leave commercial entities alone so Google, MS, Amazon, FB, and Apple can continue their growth.

Agree or disagree?


36 posted on 05/20/2016 10:12:28 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: aquila48

Mark Zuckerberg is ‘dictator’ of Facebook ‘nation’: The Pirate Bay founder

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is the “dictator” of “the biggest nation in the world”

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/27/mark-zuckerberg-is-dictator-of-facebook-nation-the-pirate-bay-founder.html


37 posted on 05/27/2016 11:12:52 AM PDT by donna (Forcing men into womenÂ’s spaces is the beginning of Sharia Law in the USA.)
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To: donna

“Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is the “dictator” of “the biggest nation in the world””

True, but his “subjects” are all eager volunteers.


38 posted on 05/27/2016 11:23:30 AM PDT by aquila48
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