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The caricature of Silicon Valley people, which we’ve pilloried before, are that they are simple libertarians. The new survey continues to deconstruct this silly portrait. Fewer tech founders (24 percent) than Republicans (63 percent) or Democrats (44 percent) generally agree with a simple statement of libertarian philosophy: “I would like to live in a society where government does nothing except provide national defense and police protection, so that people could be left alone to earn whatever they could.”
But tech founder politics are different from either political party in unusual ways. Tech founders are developing a new, strange kind of politics that’s opposed toregulation, but for redistribution through taxation.
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