Re:The things nobody wants to pay for
by madsbuch on Friday January 26, 2024 @12:54PM
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My impression was, that there was consensus that the bay area was build on public funds and institutions. My intuition is that it is only later, ie. within the past 30-40 years, that the US has adopted this antipathy towards governmental organisations.
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probably hit an inflection point in the 1990s when the internet backbone went private and libertarianism started to become so popular in tech circles.
Not an historian or American but Reaganism predates the 90’s
Don’t know when the Americans became anti-government but it’s been a while in the making. Hell, rabid anti-communism famously took root in the 50’s