Irony is, those in need of deprogramming the most are the ones into programming. How is it even possible that people that are supposed to be so intelligent/logical/rational are actually this gullible to state’s propaganda that they believe it without a shred of doubt.
I’m a programmer as well, but being good at your job does not mean your political ideas are better as a consequence. It just means you have the capacity for it, not that it’s being used.
Also, programmers are paid better, so I’d imagine they would believe we live in a meritocracy and tend to ignore those below them (they don’t know they exist).
I’m sure it’s not just programmers who have this issue.
I’m sorry am I missing something? How does being a programmer relate to political leaning?
One only look into politics if they need to.
When you have a comfortable life there’s no objective reason to question the structure of power are oneself is immersed into.
Because programmers generally get a comfortable lifestyle from the compensation for their work, they can easily believe that wages generally correlates to skill and effort, becoming completely oblivious to the concept of surplus value. From that point on they are susceptible to reinforcing dominant ideology.
Speaking as a programmer trying to rally the class. It’s hard! Too much anecdotal evidence that things are fine, apparently. But I want to believe tides are starting to change.
The same way being a mechanical engineer relates to political leaning, I’d assume.
I don’t think it does. It also doesn’t mean they are not intelligent. It just means they spent a long time studying their trade, which is commendable.
But if you want to understand politics, you need to do like the rest of us and study politics. You can’t look at a bucket and then say you understand the river.
Maybe somewhat, but mostly as class interests. I know a horrible neoliberal programmer who thinks he’s smarter than everyone because he reads Wikipedia articles. I figured out that the beliefs seemed highly correlated with his position as a labor aristocrat.