It's draws an interesting crowd. It was originally one of the most anti-credentialist, libertarian technical professions out there. Now its members seem to either veered into the far left or the far right. You don't really see very many (excluding perhaps those on H1B visas) who just want to figuratively grill.
I suspect (though I don't have any hard evidence of this) that we are significantly over-represented within the dissident right.
My experience has been that people reflect geography more than their profession. If you're in Silicon Valley, you're bound to encounter a ton of leftists. If you talk to computer engineers in Oklahoma, not so much. Of course the average is weighted towards coastal elites, so there's probably more of them tbh. But there's also a lot of overlap with gamers who tend to be reactionary.
Libertarianism isn't really either thing. You have left-libertarians and you have those that are conservatives. The main thing that's happened, that Elon Musk alluded to recently is that the woke, mainstream left, which isn't really even a hard left, has become anti-libertarian. As in, they literally hate liberty.
It's draws an interesting crowd. It was originally one of the most anti-credentialist, libertarian technical professions out there. Now its members seem to either veered into the far left or the far right. You don't really see very many (excluding perhaps those on H1B visas) who just want to figuratively grill.
I suspect (though I don't have any hard evidence of this) that we are significantly over-represented within the dissident right.
My experience has been that people reflect geography more than their profession. If you're in Silicon Valley, you're bound to encounter a ton of leftists. If you talk to computer engineers in Oklahoma, not so much. Of course the average is weighted towards coastal elites, so there's probably more of them tbh. But there's also a lot of overlap with gamers who tend to be reactionary.
Libertarianism isn't really either thing. You have left-libertarians and you have those that are conservatives. The main thing that's happened, that Elon Musk alluded to recently is that the woke, mainstream left, which isn't really even a hard left, has become anti-libertarian. As in, they literally hate liberty.