Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple employees donating to Elizabeth Warren, even though she wants to

[TexasTowelie]

Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple employees donating to Elizabeth Warren, even though she wants to break up big tech


Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s pledge to break up Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies has provoked a surprising response from some of those firms’ employees: They’re writing her checks.

The Massachusetts senator received more than $39,000 in donations from employees of Amazon, Apple, Facebook or Google, ranking third among her fellow Democratic 2020 presidential contenders. And she did even better among all donors who describe themselves as software engineers or programmers, coming in second behind Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The first quarter fundraising reports, which were released this week, are a sign that the Warren’s controversial plan for restructuring the tech industry has won support among techies who like the idea of taking the giants down to size.

“Monopoly power is bad for democracy,” said Alex Feldman-Crough, a software engineer in San Francisco who gave Warren $250 last month. “Folks hear a lot from the biggest players, like the lobbyists or spokespeople for large tech companies — but the actual people who make up these companies are far more diverse in their views.”

Read more: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/04/19/elizabeth-warren-president-tech-campaign-donations-berine-sanders-kamala-harris/

[blm]

1. Not surprising

They realize what’s going down

[Hortensis]

2. Big tech employees supporting Warren. Great!

Well, who'd know why they should better than them? No doubt they could educate a lot of others on very important reasons we need to restore regulations and write new ones -- beyond general populist-type resentment at "the elites."

[dalton99a]

3. Although well paid, tech workers know they have a short shelf life

and if their managers can move the work offshore, they will

[Hortensis]

4. Conviction for regulation goes far beyond immediate self interest.

I remember talking with one of them at a party, a software engineer out from northern California, about his work, and he was clearly both thrilled with the advances he was part of and afraid of them if not regulated.

They know they and their children will not be too powerful to be controlled by what's coming if we don't control it.

[SMC22307]

5. "Monopoly power is bad for democracy."

Amen to that.