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Big Tech's Class War Politics

Why Silicon Valley Bolted Right

Now one of the stories pundits like Matt Yglesias and Noah Smith are telling is that the mean left-wingers alienated their old friends in Silicon Valley with their stream of criticisms directed at our tech overlords and forced them to go right-wing. Using the work of Mark Blyth, Farrell posits that there was a crisis that opened the terrain for a political and intellectual shift: My hypothesis is that we are living in the immediate aftermaths of two intertwined crises. They don’t share their more pragmatic-minded tech colleagues’ worries that immigration restrictions will lower their ability to staff complex organizations, because they want a post-labor future or, at least, want labor not cossetted but more subordinated.

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