Paul Krugman: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a crank. And he has no chance of winning. So what does technology billionaires' support for him tell us about their role in modern American political life?
Yet now that Ron DeSantis’ campaign seems to be on the skids, Kennedy is suddenly getting support from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. Jack Dorsey, who founded Twitter, has endorsed him, while some other prominent tech figures have been holding fundraisers on his behalf. Elon Musk, who is in the process of destroying what Dorsey built, hosted him for a Twitter spaces event.
What seems to attract some technology types to RFK Jr. is his contrarianism — his disregard for conventional wisdom and expert opinion. So before I get into the tech-bro-specific aspects of this weird political moment, let me say a few things about being contrarian. On the other hand, reflexive contrarianism is, as economist Adam Ozimek puts it, a “brain rotting drug.” Those who succumb to that drug “lose the ability to judge others they consider contrarian, become unable to tell good evidence from bad, a total unanchoring of belief that leads them to cling to low quality contrarian fads.”
And to the extent that contrarian tech bros talk to anyone else, it’s to one another. Tech entrepreneur and writer Anil Dash tells us that “it’s impossible to overstate the degree to which many Big Tech CEOs and venture capitalists are being radicalized by living within their own cultural and social bubble.” He calls this phenomenon of venture capitalism “VC QAnon,” a concept that I find helps explain many of the strange positions taken by tech billionaires lately.
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