Once upon a time, digital tech firms, having caught the regulatory state off-guard, spontaneously embraced de facto freedom from regulation. Nowadays, big tech firms lobby heavily for preemptive regulation of digital tech old and new. See, for example, Sam Altman's plea for regulation of AI. It's unclear whether the motives are insider-ism (regulatory capture), fear of a hostile standoff by lawmakers, and/or elite ideology. Count me more skeptical than Richard Hanania.
‘... the openness to change of the left.’ What drivel! The Left are not open to change. It MUST be done their centuries old, tired, failed way. Of course the Left’s way never fails - it just hasn’t had enough money spent on it, or hasn’t been done long enough, or not enough resources applied. Left open to change? Please... do me a favour, pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
What makes Elon Musk a special billionaire is he sees threats to own well-being and that of his employees and his children and he makes a public personal defense - he puts his own money and reputation at risk to defy the political consensus. He saw California's Covid policies threatening his business and he pushed back, ultimately moving Tesla's HQ to Texas. He sees Transgender activism a threat to children and so he defies his corporate executive peers and he speaks out in criticism. He sees threats to free speech and so he buys Twitter.
But Musk is a unique case. He made his billions off of government subsidies yet he feels no loyalty to government. Contrast that to Zuckerberg, Google and other Silicon Valley firms who profit from their government ties and who are all too willing to please the government's wishes.
1) Richard wants them to try to cut Social Security, DOA. Probably the single worst thing the GOP wasted political capital on for the last 20 years. If you hate olds just assume the US is going bankrupt eventually and pass huge child tax credits to funnel what money is left to young faster.
I would guess tech right opinions on healthcare run the gamut, and that's where the money is.
2) He wants more immigration even though immigration turned Silicon Valley into a one party far left state.
3) Move on from legalizing pot to legalizing meth?
4) All of the reforms Richard says he likes (low taxes, growth, school choice, anti-woke) are all happening in Red States full of those GOP populists he hates.
Silicon Valley voted in favor of affirmative action:
I thought it as a good essay. The #1 issue is that the crop of new "educated conservatives" is smaller and smaller every year. Even if one is dispositionally conservative (in the traditional American sense) it's hard to develop the knowledge and skills in today's education system that has fewer and fewer conservative role models. I see it with one of my teenagers. Conformity is prevalent and the nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
"Here, Hanania sounds to me like a Paul Ryan Republican. As it stands today, that faction is under the bus, having been tossed there by Donald Trump and his supporters."
Paul Ryan and similar Republicans tossed themselves under that bus.
"like a Paul Ryan Republican. As it stands today, that faction is under the bus, having been tossed there by Donald Trump and his supporters."
It was Paul Ryan who failed as a Republican House leader to get funding for a border wall, as was promised by Trump -- Ryan did more tossing Trump under the bus first.
This is kinda common in those who complain about Trump. Trump-haters insult or badly treat Trump, who returns even worse insults or worse treatment. (Lately with DeSantis, Trump is insulting first - and many Trump supporters are supporting him less because of this.)
Kling has often complained about lousy Trump appointees - yet since Biden's successful steal* of the election, no Kling complaints about any of Biden's terrible picks doing lousy stuff. Plus, Trump in changing / improving was at least going thru the advantage of democratic gov't - peaceful replacement of those not performing.
The Tech Right, and Kling, like rich Rep donors, don't like Trump and especially his strong anti-illegal immigrant stance, which all nativist anti-immigrants also are against. Tho it's Trump's boasting and vulgar "rich & winning" claims & style which so many educated folk make him "unqualified" to be President.
*Kling's idea is that gov't supported censorship of true news about a candidate doesn't rise to the level of "stealing" an election, because of the ballots being counted. Tho the FBI supported RussiaHoax was all about vague influence, rather than specific censorship of the truth - and of course, none of the deep state illegal election influencers will be indicted or punished. Most won't even be investigated.
Why is it so hard to accept the truth? The election was unfree, unfair - therefore stolen. Kling prefers confirmation bias analysis to claim "not stolen" rather than - yes, deep state stole the election. Why? probably because accepting that 2020 was stolen means ... what? That more should vote Trump 2024 for "some kind of justice"? - and Trump haters hate that idea, tho many want to continue the outrage porn of Trump hate intellectual masturbation.
I'll support Trump or DeSantis - any Rep better than every Dem. (I'm already tired of 2024.)
The Paul Ryan Republican faction is thrown under the bus by Trump. Kling keeps saying that over and over.
Paul Ryan rose to the leadership of the Republican Party as a health care policy specialist and despite winning lots of elections and having control of all three branches of federal government, under Paul Ryan's leadership the Republican's ultimately delivered nothing or next to nothing. Paul Ryan may be a great policy writer, he may have great policy ideas, but as a political leader specifically on the health care issue, he seems to have done a terrible job of leading the party, building consensus, building messaging, and passing quality legislation.
Also, while Paul Ryan was leading health care legislation efforts with all three branches of federal government under Republican control, I noticed Kling was decidedly uninterested in everything Paul Ryan was doing.
Also, the tech right has been around for a while, they were a key part of Trump's success. Peter Thiel is obviously part of the tech right, he has been one of the most influential voices of the right and endorsed Trump in 2016. Elon Musk is now the biggest politically outspoken figure of the tech right in 2023.
Note the throwing under the bus too the idea that "crony capitalism" is bad. The difference between the Tech Right and libertarianism is the former's idea that government interference/subsidy on tech's behalf is good.
So it's a Paul Ryan + an unabashed support for Big Serious Capitalists, contra the romance of the small business person. None of this Institute for Justice stuff wherein helping taco truck entrepreneurs is on equal footing with less corporate regulation.
Once upon a time, digital tech firms, having caught the regulatory state off-guard, spontaneously embraced de facto freedom from regulation. Nowadays, big tech firms lobby heavily for preemptive regulation of digital tech old and new. See, for example, Sam Altman's plea for regulation of AI. It's unclear whether the motives are insider-ism (regulatory capture), fear of a hostile standoff by lawmakers, and/or elite ideology. Count me more skeptical than Richard Hanania.
‘... the openness to change of the left.’ What drivel! The Left are not open to change. It MUST be done their centuries old, tired, failed way. Of course the Left’s way never fails - it just hasn’t had enough money spent on it, or hasn’t been done long enough, or not enough resources applied. Left open to change? Please... do me a favour, pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
What makes Elon Musk a special billionaire is he sees threats to own well-being and that of his employees and his children and he makes a public personal defense - he puts his own money and reputation at risk to defy the political consensus. He saw California's Covid policies threatening his business and he pushed back, ultimately moving Tesla's HQ to Texas. He sees Transgender activism a threat to children and so he defies his corporate executive peers and he speaks out in criticism. He sees threats to free speech and so he buys Twitter.
But Musk is a unique case. He made his billions off of government subsidies yet he feels no loyalty to government. Contrast that to Zuckerberg, Google and other Silicon Valley firms who profit from their government ties and who are all too willing to please the government's wishes.
Tech Right: Andrew Yang plus HBD statistics.
What's the political platform of the tech right?
1) Richard wants them to try to cut Social Security, DOA. Probably the single worst thing the GOP wasted political capital on for the last 20 years. If you hate olds just assume the US is going bankrupt eventually and pass huge child tax credits to funnel what money is left to young faster.
I would guess tech right opinions on healthcare run the gamut, and that's where the money is.
2) He wants more immigration even though immigration turned Silicon Valley into a one party far left state.
3) Move on from legalizing pot to legalizing meth?
4) All of the reforms Richard says he likes (low taxes, growth, school choice, anti-woke) are all happening in Red States full of those GOP populists he hates.
Silicon Valley voted in favor of affirmative action:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-california-proposition-16-repeal-ban-on-affirmative-action.html
I thought it as a good essay. The #1 issue is that the crop of new "educated conservatives" is smaller and smaller every year. Even if one is dispositionally conservative (in the traditional American sense) it's hard to develop the knowledge and skills in today's education system that has fewer and fewer conservative role models. I see it with one of my teenagers. Conformity is prevalent and the nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
"Here, Hanania sounds to me like a Paul Ryan Republican. As it stands today, that faction is under the bus, having been tossed there by Donald Trump and his supporters."
Paul Ryan and similar Republicans tossed themselves under that bus.
"like a Paul Ryan Republican. As it stands today, that faction is under the bus, having been tossed there by Donald Trump and his supporters."
It was Paul Ryan who failed as a Republican House leader to get funding for a border wall, as was promised by Trump -- Ryan did more tossing Trump under the bus first.
This is kinda common in those who complain about Trump. Trump-haters insult or badly treat Trump, who returns even worse insults or worse treatment. (Lately with DeSantis, Trump is insulting first - and many Trump supporters are supporting him less because of this.)
Kling has often complained about lousy Trump appointees - yet since Biden's successful steal* of the election, no Kling complaints about any of Biden's terrible picks doing lousy stuff. Plus, Trump in changing / improving was at least going thru the advantage of democratic gov't - peaceful replacement of those not performing.
The Tech Right, and Kling, like rich Rep donors, don't like Trump and especially his strong anti-illegal immigrant stance, which all nativist anti-immigrants also are against. Tho it's Trump's boasting and vulgar "rich & winning" claims & style which so many educated folk make him "unqualified" to be President.
*Kling's idea is that gov't supported censorship of true news about a candidate doesn't rise to the level of "stealing" an election, because of the ballots being counted. Tho the FBI supported RussiaHoax was all about vague influence, rather than specific censorship of the truth - and of course, none of the deep state illegal election influencers will be indicted or punished. Most won't even be investigated.
Why is it so hard to accept the truth? The election was unfree, unfair - therefore stolen. Kling prefers confirmation bias analysis to claim "not stolen" rather than - yes, deep state stole the election. Why? probably because accepting that 2020 was stolen means ... what? That more should vote Trump 2024 for "some kind of justice"? - and Trump haters hate that idea, tho many want to continue the outrage porn of Trump hate intellectual masturbation.
I'll support Trump or DeSantis - any Rep better than every Dem. (I'm already tired of 2024.)
Hanania's article is good. But these people have a broader spectrum of views than what he describes https://twitter.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1665839448741879808?t=dUK_LTMA_TPgnQs634E6bQ&s=19
Hanania is right about the economic populism. It's going to get mugged by reality.
The Paul Ryan Republican faction is thrown under the bus by Trump. Kling keeps saying that over and over.
Paul Ryan rose to the leadership of the Republican Party as a health care policy specialist and despite winning lots of elections and having control of all three branches of federal government, under Paul Ryan's leadership the Republican's ultimately delivered nothing or next to nothing. Paul Ryan may be a great policy writer, he may have great policy ideas, but as a political leader specifically on the health care issue, he seems to have done a terrible job of leading the party, building consensus, building messaging, and passing quality legislation.
Also, while Paul Ryan was leading health care legislation efforts with all three branches of federal government under Republican control, I noticed Kling was decidedly uninterested in everything Paul Ryan was doing.
Also, the tech right has been around for a while, they were a key part of Trump's success. Peter Thiel is obviously part of the tech right, he has been one of the most influential voices of the right and endorsed Trump in 2016. Elon Musk is now the biggest politically outspoken figure of the tech right in 2023.
“And if I were younger and more focused, I would be trying to turn one of my LLM app ideas into a business right now.”
Would love to hear more about your llm app ideas...🙏👍
Note the throwing under the bus too the idea that "crony capitalism" is bad. The difference between the Tech Right and libertarianism is the former's idea that government interference/subsidy on tech's behalf is good.
So it's a Paul Ryan + an unabashed support for Big Serious Capitalists, contra the romance of the small business person. None of this Institute for Justice stuff wherein helping taco truck entrepreneurs is on equal footing with less corporate regulation.