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misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Please stop blaming those things on everything except people. I’m Polish. Polish people drink homophobia with their mothers milk. We didn’t need to import it from US or Russia and it’s still better than the 90s. Average developer is a young male who predominantly votes for outright fascists. The reason CDPR appears progressive is because they calculated it to be more profitable.

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barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
About 50% of developers are 25-35. We skew young due to more and more people becoming programmers, that is, for the same reason that cobblers skew old, but not first vote kind of young.

And your source doesn’t even make an attempt to correlate voting behaviour to profession, much less specialised field (programmer vs gamedev), not to mention that not every gamedev is a programmer, all in all not enough data to slander a whole profession. Do better.

The reason gamedevs skews progressive, btw, is because artists do.

But OTOH yes you’re right in Poland’s case it’s not imported culture war BS it’s Catholicism.

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- misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  People 18-39 vote predominantly for Konfederacja (far right), KO (populist centre-right), PiS (populist right). I could dig some more precise sources with gender data but I think it’s telling that these are the results even with women in the mix. Coincidentally even among young women voting for far right is more common than for centre-left. I’m not mentioning left since their popularity is within the margin of error.
  
  Yeah, artists skew left but you won’t find a more bigoted libertarian than a young polish programmer. Most of them are also pretty spoiled too because of the degressive tax system that favours them so much.
  
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  - barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Yeah, artists skew left but you won’t find a more bigoted libertarian than a young polish programmer. Most of them are also pretty spoiled too because of the degressive tax system that favours them so much.
    
    The temporarily embarrassed millionaires don’t tend to be the ones going into gamedev: Our wages suck and being an indie is about as likely to make you rich as playing the lottery. I’d mostly limit that kind of behaviour to FAANG folks as well as people who should have studied business economics instead (or actually did) and probably can’t code for shit anyway, in short: Techbros. They’re about as toxic as your average corporate lawyer.
    
    Assholes existing is a general feature of contemporary society, don’t pin it on people understanding “there are 10 kind of people” jokes.
    
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