Gary Gerstle explains that back in the 1990s, when the IT revolution was beginning, the Republican Newt Gingrich was the Silicon Valley’s greatest cheerleader. But the techie entrepreneurs were put off by the Republicans’ belief in morality. They wanted freedom not only from government regulation of industry but also freedom from any constraint. This is why the tech industries are today so woke.
Of course, people who are wealthy and extremely disciplined can withstand a lack of external constraints because they create their own with the help of a platoon of expensive specialists they can hire. For people who don’t have the money, the discipline or a very high intellect, this kind of freedom is quite literally deadly. We can see that in the plummeting life expectancy, deaths of despair, the soaring opioid addiction, etc.
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Another reason why big business is woke is because they can afford it better than small business. Small business can’t afford dysfunctional politics and convoluted regulations, eliminating them as competition.
https://dailyfriend.co.za/2022/02/27/why-the-anc-hates-small-business/
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…which is one reason big businesses want so badly to impose it on their smaller brethren. It keeps the competition down.
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Saw this and thought of it as another example of neoliberalism, in the sense of “you’re a sovereign individual and everything is up to you, including protecting yourself against crime”:
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yeah. And it won’t be long before that concept = the whole internet also.
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An excellent example. That’s completely spot-on. I hadn’t thought of it myself but it totally makes sense.
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