I mean, this is what happened. There are folks who say that was good and there are folks who say this was bad, but it happened. The real issue is that the promised political benefits of being hostile to tech didn’t pay off. There weren’t actually voters in the heartland clamoring for a Butlerian Jihad. Tech wasn’t and still isn’t a monolithic evil the way oil was in the 1910s, the railroads were in the 1890s, or the banks/Wall Street have been off and on since 1789. It was a political misread.
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Billionaire co-founder of Linkedin Reid Hoffman:  "I think the Democratic Party really did alienate a section of Silicon Valley and the tech people, whether it was attacks on crypto, whether it was kind of just attacks on Big Tech, you know, all these things. And one of the things that I think Silicon Valley kind of shares is this deep view that the way you make massive progress for humanity is creating scale technologies. And the principle way of creating scale technologies is companies. And so if you're attacking that and limiting it, then you have all kinds of problems now, you know? And obviously just like you, you got crazy people on both sides. So you got crazy people saying, 'No, no, no, no. Uh, we shouldn't allow any technological progress until you have the exact proportionate of races and genders and everything else.'"
@BGM_22 Re Lina, there was a lot of good press about her (and I liked much of what the FTC did, especially the consumer protection side), but like 5% of voters knew who she was. You can’t get positive mass politics out of the independent agencies, but you can make a lot of enemies.
@thought_less_ @BFieldSource I do know there are some former Biden staff who think that would’ve killed the tech industry, but they’re totally mistaken. It would’ve further tanked their approval due to the second order consequences, but they were never very good at looking at indirect effects.
@minervas_muse @jdcmedlock Politics is about addition more than subtraction. When Dems had a popular vote majority, they could play around with pushing out factions. At this point though, they need to gain votes; tech is an area they had recently unlike other blocs.
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