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One annoying thing about tech is that you run into a lot of libertarians. Dealing with or having to pretend to agree with the libertarian position really gets on my nerves because many tech IT workers hold this position while fully benefiting from government policies that libertarians seek to eliminate. Even worse is that they complain about private industry practices that could be rectified with government intervention while holding a viewpoint that the private industry is always right. It's just so contradictory and self-defeating. Let's look at a few examples:

1. Government is bad and we need to eliminate workplace regulations. Tech libertarians will hold this view while complaining about the extra hours that companies squeeze into their workday or how "salaried" employees are exploited. Well what in the fuck do they think would happen if labor laws were eliminated entirely? Candy canes and lollipops would fall out of the assholes of executives that want the most IT work done for the least amount paid? Remember Lumbergh from Office Space? You really think a guy like that would get nicer about hours if the government pulled out? We already had an economy without government regulation of work hours in the 1800s and that is when working Saturdays and Sundays was the norm. Letting business owners set hours and workdays does not result in a utopia and WE KNOW THIS FROM HISTORY. I really scratch my head when I hear "government is bad" and "at least I can clock overtime" from the same people. You think corps would pay overtime if they didn't have to? Good Lord.

2. We can lower unemployment by giving tax breaks to corporations. And what if they are Apple or Microsoft and already have billions upon billions in the bank? Libertarians seem to think that these executives would start hiring in mass just as a token of appreciation even if they can already afford to hire more people with their billions in capital. Why would they? This position doesn't make any sense. Even worse is that many tech workers have experience in large organizations that could and should hire more IT people but don't want to because they don't fucking want to. I know of a Fortune 50 company with billions in the bank that pisses and fucking moans over replacing a single XP desktop, let alone hiring an IT worker. But giving them more money will supposedly change their attitude? Why? THEY ALREADY HAVE MONEY. This is just as naive as suggesting that the bully might not take as much of your lunch money if you bring more. Why? Or they can just take it all and laugh in your face.

3. Our lack of regulation allows our tech economy to exist. Right because the Japanese that have workplace regulations beyond what any Democrat has proposed in the last 10 years has made their country a backwards, primitive place from the stone age.

3. I want to pay less taxes and or smoke pot. This is often the basis of the tech libertarian outlook but these two positions don't require that you adopt a Lumbergh corporate dream platform. I think middle class taxes are too high especially the AMT for couples and I don't care if people smoke pot but that doesn't mean I have to be a libertarian and accept positions like giving Microsoft more money instead of funding public health or getting rid of the FDA. 

On the surface the libertarian position may seem appealing and rational but once it is broken down and compared against history and how corporations operate it is clearly not in the best interest of tech workers or the general public. I haven't even explored some of their other harmful positions like open borders but I hope this post at least encourages some reflection on the libertarian position.

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