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Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago>field stereotypically composed of argumentative assholes
>members congregate amongst argumentative assholes
This is as surprising as finding my old human sexuality professor on tumblr. I mean, I haven’t, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
Axeman666@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Another unfortunate fact is that there are a lot of right wing people in IT. That’s something I’ve learned in national conferences. I always hang out in places like this so I had no idea how bad it was, but at least 50% of the people I’ve at IT conferences were right leaning. There’s only 1 on my team. 2 if you count the libertarian.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
As is the rest of society. There’s nothing about IT that would make it more likely to attract left wing folks. There is that for FOSS specifically, but a huge part of the IT sector only consumes FOSS products without ever giving back.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
FOSS also attracts right wing libertarians
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
True, but by its nature of sharing more left wingers than other fields of IT
echodot@feddit.uk 22 hours ago
When I first started I used to work at an absolute dumpster fire of a place, and even that only had one right wing guy and he was a conspiracy theorist who thought that the COVID vaccine contained nanobots. The guy who is supposedly an IT professional thinks we have nanobots.
He didn’t last very long. Not because he was a conspiracy theorist, although for my part I would have been perfectly fine if that had been the reason, but because he was actually kind of useless at his job. It turns out that if you think we have a microscopic robotic technology then you’re probably not as well versed in the industry as you are pretending to be.
a_jackal@pawb.social 15 hours ago
That’s one of the things I enjoy about working in the video games industry instead of a normal software place, everybody seems much more progressive than the average for my country. Maybe it just comes with being underpaid and working on creative stuff.