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Re:Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Wo... by tivert on Thursday January 24, 2019 @11:29AM (#18990113)
> Programmers, maybe ones on HN especially, are super conservative and anti-labour for some reason. I don't know the history of Silicon Valley enough to figure out exactly why

That's not quite right, HN is full of anti-labor libertarians. And I think it has something to do with startup culture, which is a lot about working to get a golden ticket to join the capitalist class. That causes a lot of people to identify with that class and its interests, despite actually being laborers themselves.

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Re:Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Wo... by 0x262d on Thursday January 24, 2019 @11:36AM (#18990187)
yes. and in addition, programmers in general while technically workers have a pretty cushy middle class existence.
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Re:Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Wo... by Apocryphon on Thursday January 24, 2019 @12:44PM (#18990938)
So did doctors and lawyers, at one point.
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