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Why Does the Tech Workforce Lean Left?
A common culture is especially important for technology companies, and wokeism provides it.
Twitter headquarters, San Francisco, March 17, 2022.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Why are so many employees of major technology companies so left-wing, in particular so invested in woke ideology?
I would like to consider this question without judging whether this is good or bad. I would also like to think about it in abstract terms, separate from any controversies involving any particular tech company, which are variously accused of being biased against the right or the left. And I fully acknowledge that there is a prominent strain of libertarianism in the tech world, though even that tends to be of the more liberal variety.