Microsoft bankrolls Democrats too. Big tech is very left wing.
Yeah, no. They may have low-level employees who are left-wing, progressive, socialist etc. but the actual people who own the companies, their board of directors, many of their shareholders etc. are generally right-of-center on socio-economic issues, if not even more right-leaning than that.
A lot of the DEI (Diversity, Equality, & Inclusion) stuff you see from these Big Tech companies is virtue-signaling so they can boost their ESG scores with massive investment firms like BlackRock, and look "safer" for investors in general. The big brass at the Big Tech companies don't actually give a crap about or even genuinely support the DEI stuff.
The unfortunate part is these companies (and others like Disney) basically virtue-signal DEI paired with genuinely bad stories and writing, so people conflate DEI stuff now with bad products, as if there haven't been trash shows/games/music/movies etc. that have also 100% lacked any DEI (and continue to). I don't know if that conflation has come about accidentally or if it's been an
intentional thing, though, knowing the ease many low-level thinkers in consumer markets can be manipulated through misdirection, to engineer dislike for something that is inherently neither good
NOR bad. Like many other things, DEI is inherently neutral. It can be good or bad depending on the intentions and talent of those who push for it in their works.
But I think this is veering a bit off from MS/ABK in particular, so I'll stop here.
Ok, one more.
Not even close. They have tried to control what discussions can be had online and on their platforms in collaboration with the news media and the government. Look at all the baloney that happened around Covid. Libertarian?
Big Tech wants to control everything they can. They are not altruistic, and this is the industry I am in myself.
I get what you're saying. And one thing 100% right about Big Tech is that they want to control everything. In that sense, they thrive off of an authoritative environment, and have gotten many cues from governments like the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
But I'd still say in terms of the personal beliefs of the company founders, and their biggest investors and board members...when it come to socio-economic things they are probably right-of-center, though in some cases they may be just to grift and virtue-signal to right-wing people (and honestly, they virtue-signal to pretty much everyone). They are fiscally 100% against things like socialism, though.
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