Why the tech Right loves Trump

> The question has therefore been which subsets of the elite would break Republican. In tech, this is now clear: where Obama’s allies in the industry were social media platform moguls, Trump’s are crypto, AI, and biotech investors eager to accelerate America into a new Golden Age of innovation.

Robber barons without failure will always want to see themselves as bastions of intellectual progress and innovation. I think an objective approach to answer whether such personalities really bring forth what they promise is to look at the overall results of their labor. A very superficial example is that no country with an appreciable influence of such people has ever been voted high in the happiness index: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-...

Perhaps, an interesting experiment would be for such robber barrons to try to utilize their great influence and intellect to teach those poor mongrels in high happiness countries all about innovation and technological progress.