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Why does HN, or SWEs in general, have a libertarian / small govt bias?


Engineering woo effect, perhaps? https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo


Because everyone here is a phony.

Everyone publicly wants socialism, and privately wants to protect their own assets.




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