Comment by plastic-enjoyer
2 hours ago
Engineers, in general, tend to be libertarians and have a positive outlook on capitalism. They are, in general, people that have no roots, or any sense of culture or taste. Which is why they are uncritical towards what we call progress - they are not in a position where they could lose their culture, their roots, their home because they do not possess anything like that. They are men without qualities, revelling in their obsession with optimisation, mowing everything down that may introduce friction in their parasitic nature.
If we want to have a future, we have to ask the engineer question at first.
Spot on. The difference in thinking with the US is enormous.
I wonder if all they want from the future is fat people on mobility scooters like the beginning of wall-e.
Sure, AI may be the future for a certain market, but datacenters aside we will always need clean land, air and water, food for our bodies and homes to live in.
This is a pretty broad generalization with nothing offered to back it up. In addition, it seems pretty insulting generally.
I think we need a citation about the libertarian / capitalism thing? I know a lot of leftist engineers. Look how blue the bay area votes?
Does the Bay Area have forced integration/bussing for schools? Massive amounts of affordable housing? East Asian city levels of public transit?