Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’

Most silicon valley employees don't really care about any of this. If anything most have extremely conservative opinions, they'll be all for Trump if they could vote on H1

Anti-net neutrality, anti-legal pot, draconian immigration policies, erosion of the social safety net, deregulation of the environment, kneecapping solar, climate denial. Are these really things most educated people in silicon valley are on board with? I have no connection to silicon valley, but most tech workers I know wouldn't support Trump at the very least because his climate denial is anti scientific and destructive.

I think most folks in SF and SV are against Trump on these issues. There are however many people who see the homeless situation on the streets of SF and think that the Democratic government is broken on at least that issue.

Not to mention that there are folks who support the contrarian standpoint on every one of those issues but are anti gun control.

The H1Bs I know that support Trump do so mostly because of economic reasons, and because of the immigration policies, like fixing H1B abuse, and making legal immigrants take priority over illegal ones (Democrats are perceived to do the opposite).

Can confirm this. Indians in SV are big trump supporters.

India with all of its poverty, inequality and bigotism is more or less Trump's ideal country.

All of these things have only minor impact on the average citizen. Trump's tax cuts have already done way more for the average tech worker than anything Hillary was proposing.

Mexicans too. But thats a global effect, immigrants usually vote anti-immigration - it seems paradoxical at first, but they have the the most to loose.

How is fixing H1B abuse by a few companies (Infosys and such) considered an anti-immigration stance? As far as I know, the proposed solution was not to reduce the yearly cap on H1B visas (which indeed would reduce the number of immigrants), but to put higher base requirements, so the quality of an average candidate is better and that qualified candidates don't waste years and years trying to just get the visa while being stuck in a legal limbo. If anything, the current H1B system is more inhumane, because qualified people are playing the visa lottery in hopes that they will not get cut by someone like Infosys who mercilessly spams the visa system with all the resources they have.

Wow.

Given that the discussion was about the tendency of Indians to support Trump (at least in SV tech)...

... that's just over-the-top outrageous racist, man.

1. strange and irrelavent rant. Curiously, wasn't downvoted, prbly due to 'anti trump comment' downvote shield.

2. poverty, inequality and bigotism actually increase throughout obama era( verifiable via internet search).

> How is fixing H1B abuse by a few companies (Infosys and such) considered an anti-immigration stance?

Fixing this would result in higher quality competition coming in for existing H1B immigrants.