Why Don't Conservatives Take the Lead in Technology?

by RubaDub 8 Replies latest jw friends

  • RubaDub
    RubaDub

    Why is there constant criticism about "liberals" driving new technology? Web sites, social platforms, etc.

    If the US is relatively evenly divided, why do all "new" things seem to come from the liberal side? (The one exception I can think of, the My Pillow guy. He makes the pillows for people and dogs as he advertises). I can't name too many conservative, if any, visionaries in the IT marketplace.

    I always was taught that you have to "think outside of the box" to be creative.

    When it comes to technology, where are the conservatives?

  • Vidiot
    Vidiot

    From what I've read, ("classical") conservative ideology tends to favor slower cultural and sociological change.

    That trend would probably translate itself towards technological innovation, at least to some degree.

  • Anony Mous
    Anony Mous

    It depends on what you qualify as liberal and new technology. Plenty of innovation happens amongst conservatives, you just don't hear about it because it's not really interesting to you.

    But farmers and oil companies continuously innovate and drive new technology, they are the ones that between the 50s and today increased yields an order of magnitude on the same plots of land. Fracking and shale gas made the US fuel-independent in the last 4-5 years. The primarily conservative military gave you everything from computer chips to GPS while the liberals did everything to defund those war efforts throughout the cold war.

    Zuckerberg and Musk aren't thoroughbred liberals either, they lean pretty heavy on the conservative side although their companies are in California, so their staffers are liberal but often come into conflict with their bosses. Zuckerberg is well known to have people like Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro over for dinner. Then you have people that used to have conservative values like Bill Gates in the 90s but as time progressed, he became more of a liberal.

    Most people I know that have their own business aren't far-right conservatives but are more conservative leaning. People that are liberal-leaning are generally people that rent, don't have a business and are generally younger and less experienced. Business owners don't like high taxes and minimum wage increases because they know from experience it closes businesses and increases poverty and unemployment.

    Most Americans are neither far-left nor far-right, most Americans are somewhere in between. I myself am an atheist, a social liberal but fiscally I'm conservative-leaning. I wouldn't mind voting for a Democrat if they had good policies, but right now, that bird has flown the coop. The Democrats will need to learn by losing more elections that the far-left wing of their party is doing more damage to them than they realize. Both Biden and Clinton could've won their elections if they wouldn't have tolerated people like Sanders and an entire pack of far-left ultra-rich idiot candidates this election cycle.

  • Simon
    Simon

    It's not that liberals invent things, create and develop things and build companies. They are just good at taking them over and taking advantage of other people's work and efforts and good nature.

    People have been too tolerant of the intolerant left and allowed them to take over institutions and companies.

    They are rarely capable of building anything themselves, they just consume things like locust.

  • Anna Marina
    Anna Marina

    A brother in the cong that threw me out used to work with Bell Labs in USA. He was part of the team that put together the original Microsoft DOS.

    He had Scottish ancestry and explained to me that many of the technologies that had brought about the modern world had been developed by the Scots.

    On the min one day he told me why my computer crashes - Microsoft hadn't got the maths right, therefore every so often, whoomph the stage on which all the actors are playing collapses. I wish I could speak to him today and point to Dan 1:1 and say "why has the WT got it's maths wrong and said the 3rd year of Jehoiakim's rulership is the 11th? And why does it say the 19th year of Nebuchadnezzar is followed by his 2nd year?"

    He's a CO now. Or was.

  • TD
    TD

    Einstein is mostly known for his theory of relativity. He was also a pacifist, peace activist and socialist.

    Academicians of all types tend to be liberal. Perhaps because the environment they live in insulates them from the day to day reality and things expected of the average working man.

    To plagiarize a line from a movie: "In the private sector, they want results."

  • Simon
    Simon
    Academicians of all types tend to be liberal.

    Not really, they just take over institutions and discriminate against anyone who doesn't share their world view, expelling people for whatever BS reason they can invent. The leftists governments ensure that only leftist voices are heard and get funding. So if you want to succeed, you have to say the right things.

    Hardly something to be proud of is it.

  • Anna Marina
    Anna Marina

    What Simon has just said

    !!!SO TRUE!!!



  • TD
    TD

    Yes really,

    Thanks to Joseph McCarthy this has been an area of inquiry in the U.S. since the early 1940's, with numerous books on the subject from both political points of view.

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