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Knowing these guys a bit, I’ll slightly disagree. They were always regressive, and don’t actually have enough fluency to have a genuine political POV. This is why bullshit narratives that flatter them, like Yarvin-style neoreaction, could easily sway them. Then, rising worker power radicalized them.

They had a lot of left-leaning employees, and so it was a competitive advantage to have left-leaning policy, as a way to entice employees to stay. A couple years ago, the industry started widely laying off engineers; management no longer considers employee retention to be a reason to do anything.