[seanmcdirmid]

Top SWEs tend to live in rich cities that have those jobs and lean left; they just blend in with the demographics of where their jobs are located. Like, I’m sure if there were a lot of SWE jobs available in a rich conservative city like…Riyadh…they would be leaning more right.

[monero-xmr]

The top paying fully remote jobs are in AI and Crypto (blockchain). And my experience shows the top are libertarian, which is right wing if you only see the spectrum as left / right (I see it as freedom / authoritarian)

[seanmcdirmid]

For people who don’t have to work in an office, it’s wide open, but I think even if we consider full remote employees, they are still likely to live in big liberal cities, and it’s the minority roughing it in the country/small towns that are likely to be libertarians. I don’t have access to any numbers though, so your hunch might be better than mine (I’m full remote but live in Seattle, my political ideology follows from that).

[int_19h]

The reason why people see right libertarians as, well, right-wing is because the majority ends up aligning more with mainstream right-wing parties and candidates when it comes to voting.

FWIW left libertarianism is also a thing, but you won't find much of that in crypto.

[seanmcdirmid]

Libertarians used to be left on social issues (they don’t want the right telling them who they can marry or what they can do with their bodies) and right on economic issues (traditional liberal unregulated economics, less socially funded services). It’s hard to see where they land today given Trump distortion (Trump as an obvious authoritarian shouldn’t appeal to libertarians very much, but does, so I wonder if their average ideology has changed).