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I’m late to the game, but: I’m 47, a software engineer, and am in the low end of 6 figures.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that stereotype, however. Most rich people I know hate libertarianism.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that stereotype, however. Most rich people I know hate libertarianism.
Check out pretty much any forum that has a liberal bent. Any discussion of libertarians will inevidebly result in somebody saying libertarians only care about the rich.
And I’m not surprised that most actual rich people hate libertarians. Since libertarians directly oppose the corportatism many of them take advantage of.
Can you elaborate on your “tax farmer” idea?
Age: 49
Occupation: Former community organizer
Salary: $400,000
Occupation: Counterfeiter
Salary: Infinite
Occupation: Counterfeiter
Salary: Infinite
You work for the Federal Reserve?
come on, somebody had to say it
21, Machinist at a light fixture manufacturing company, $17.62/hr. When I am running the punch press the cycles can be up to 10 mins long, and you can usually find me reading mises.org on my blackberry to kill time.
Being 33, I am probably in the top percentile of the forum 
I have MS in computer science, and working in software engineering since around 1997.
Since I live in Latvia, my salary is really irrelevant (and ridiculous by the US standards). Having said that, my purhase power for local stuff is comparable to that of my colleagues from Silicon Valley
"Age: 49
Occupation: Former community organizer
Salary: $400,000"
When your contract expires in 2012, you’ll be able to charge $100,000+ speaking fees. And you’ll get a fat pension at everyone else’s expense.
Age: 80
Occupation: rent seeker
Income: over $1,000,000,000
Finally! Someone got it. (Or, at least, responded to it.)
Why yes, yes there is. Libertarians have a model of interaction, and programmers have a model of computation. They’re also both generally highly axiomatic, at least in the case of natural rights libertarians. The sort of thinking that leads people to these conclusions or careers is very similar. Aside from that they also tend to not do as well in what is considered “normal” social circles, which naturally pushes them to “fringe” political positions or interests.
Jeez, 6 of us are coders. Is there something about creating code that makes you libertarian?
Well, the snarkier answer is that the common factor is intelligence.
Even though that’s snarky and egotistical, I think there’s some truth to that, though the previous answer discussing particular ways of thinking is more constructive. I happen to think that those ways of thinking essentially “are” inteliigent, in the sense that if you define “intelligence” in terms of the things they do for us evolutionariy, namely solve optimization problems, or put another way, do prediction and control, then it follows that if you “think” in nonsensical ways, you’re not going to be good at prediction and control and thus won’t be “intelligent”.
There are probably other reasons for the correlation as well, e.g. software people are on the internet a lot more than the average person and thus get exposed to more of the smaller communities on the net like the libertarian community.
I’m 17 with no job. D:
I just spend my time reading Austrian Economics. Mainly a lot of anti-IP literature and a lot of MES. At least be intellectually stimulated?
30 years old, I’m a currency trader, income.. never enough.
@Jhonny Five. You actually manage to scrape a living off it?
DMI1: With a good amount of capital, low or no leverage, a large dollop of common sense, a lot of experience, and a decent knowledge of economics.. yes it is possible.