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I said "between" left and far-left, and that's the majority politics of the employees. Also capitalism has nothing to do with left-vs-right.

By your definition, every corporation is right-wing by the fact that it's a corporation and all leftists want communism.

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What are you honestly trying to accomplish in this thread? What is the point of all of your overgeneralizing and contradictory statements? What are you doing this for?

I stated that Silicon Valley company employees are majority left-leaning, sometimes to the far-left, in response to the original question about Google hiring left-wing activists.

What part was unclear? What do you think is contradictory?

How is the parent comment overgeneralizing? The generalization jumping out at me is the grandparent's "all corporations are right-leaning by nature". The position of "corporations' executive decisions and internal culture can evolve separately" appears to be the nuanced one.

The 'left' (as opposed to Liberals) are anticapitalist. HN's brainworm infested "anytime someone calls something racist it's leftist" has very little to do with political theory or history. The left is anticapitalist _by definition_. Any movement not associated with unionization or anticapitalism is not leftist, but either right or liberal.

If the majority of Google workers were leftist it would be structured like Mondragon corp, not like a normal capitalist corporation.

How is this comment downvoted? It’s true.

> By your definition, every corporation is right-wing by the fact that it's a corporation and all leftists want communism.

Literally yes, although I'm an ancom and most of the leftists I know are demsoc or anarchist not ML.

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