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Nobody going to talk about the neo liberal mindset? most companies that really profited from the silicon valley revolution are based in texas for the lower taxes (i'm talking about the 80s ones, not even the recent events)

Most people i know from there preached smaller government and that they should lower taxes always to bring more private investments, while everyone defends their own properties with their own guns and provide for their family on emergencies with their own capabilities etc.

what happened to all that?

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Would you please stop using HN for ideological battle and please stop creating accounts to break the site guidelines?

Some of your comments are fine but the unsubstantive and flamewar ones are not fine.

Also, taking threads on generic ideological tangents is explicitly not what we want here. The discussions it leads to are all the same, and we're trying to avoid mind-numbing repetition here. Also, they almost always turn nasty, and we're trying to have a community where people are kind to each other.

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didn't musk going to TX for lower taxes/less government made the front page some 4 times? Isn't our industry based on companies from texas exclusively because of environmental laws, before they split into production in china/design+software in CA?

my framing was kinda of sleazy and inflammatory (but so is writing a full article about this topic and not mentioning it, instead focusing on bureocracy implementation heh), but saying that it is unsubstantive[sic]/not backed by common sense/out of topic is kinda of stretch.

and so is accusation about creating accounts. i just rotate them every few months because i value privacy over internet points.

My understanding of the term "neoliberal" doesn't include relentlessly lowering taxes or shrinking government. Maybe you mean "neoconservative" or "libertarian"?

To me, neoliberalism is better characterized as balancing market and non-market approaches to addressing social problems (more market-oriented than progressives, more comfort with government intervention than conservatives).

Also, sorta weird to blame Silicon Valley attitudes for a failure of the Texas government. Yeah a couple of companies from SV are opening offices in Texas, but this problem has been at least a decade in the making and it's not like SV is a dominant force in Texas.

you are not wrong. My /mistake/ is that in most of the world, libertarian means US-progressist and liberal means US-libertarian. it's confusing. i may have even screwed up the terms here as i'm multitasking. look up wikipedia to learn more/better :)

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