The Employees Who Gave Most to Trump and Biden

[Zorro]

With campaign spending in the 2020 presidential election coming to a record-breaking conclusion, the political donations of American workers provide a snapshot of political leanings among employers and occupations.

According to a Bloomberg News analysis of contribution data from online donation platforms ActBlue and WinRed, the employers with the most workers donating to Biden ranged from universities to the federal government to tech companies, whereas Trump’s biggest donor bases came from mail delivery companies, Walmart and the military.

Of the employers included in this analysis, those whose employees tilted the most to Trump were the New York Police Department and the U.S. Marines, with almost 70% of employees who made contributions to one of the two presidential campaigns favoring the incumbent. The employers with the greatest share of Biden donors were Facebook and the University of Washington, with over 97% of their donors giving to Biden.

Spending in the 2020 presidential election will be more than $6.6 billion—double the total from four years ago—according to a report by the Center for Responsive Politics. Democrat Joe Biden has reported raising almost $1 billion in individual contributions to his campaign as of Oct. 14. President Donald Trump has raised about $600 million.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-election-trump-biden-donors/

Interesting interactive graphic if one can get to the link.

[frazzled]

1. There is no godly reason to spend $6.6 billion on an election

I don’t know about anyone else, but I am beginning to feel that this fundraising business has gotten waaaaaay out of hand. But I don’t see how to fix it.

I’m too fatigued this morning to write a long screed or analysis ... maybe another day. For now, I’m just throwing it out there. Discuss amongst yourselves.

[SheltieLover]

2. K&R!

[CatLady78]

3. Facebook Employees: Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?

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No

This hardly offsets the harm the Facebook creeps do by helping run a vacuousness promoting surveillance apparatus.....
They have done a lot of damage in these last 10 years...they have nothing to be proud of.

[Skittles]

4. it disgusts me, how many people have been sucked into the FB Borg

[CatLady78]

5. You might like the work by Carr, Wu, Zuboff etc. Skittles

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(That is of course if you are not familiar with them already)

http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8557

http://www.roughtype.com/?p=7620

http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8608

https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/02/11/tim-wu-big-tech-lecture/

https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750

I find it bewildering that views outside the mainstream on stuff like big tech have come to connotate Alex Jones, Breitbart.. ....

These (Carr, Wu, Zuboff etc.) are views which are less mainstream than I'd like...

Outside the mainstream does not mean anti-intellectual.

Maybe this is why people with horrible employers vote blue (I don't mean the Univs...I mean Facebook, Cogito, Infobeans etc.). Wouldn't it be fun to work inside a cult:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/08/facebook-culture-cult-performance-review-process-blamed.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/18/technology/data-crunching-is-coming-to-help-your-boss-manage-your-time.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/technology/artificial-intelligence-ai-workplace.html

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/these-workers-have-new-demand-stop-watching-us/

Talk about a dystopian workplace..Who'd want to work inside a PanOpticon? And I'll bet it is bad for productivity net. At that point you might as well move to China:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2143899/forget-facebook-leak-china-mining-data-directly-workers-brains

https://futurism.com/china-emotional-surveillance

[pfitz59]

6. These articles depress me

Life is work... work is life.... ick

[CatLady78]

7. And work equating with misery & humiliation to boot

It is like a combination of a mental straitjacket and a mental prison....I have never heard of prisons or asylums as ideal environments for productivity..even aside from all the other implications of all this.

I can conceive of jobs people love going in to...these would not be those..these kinds of things are designed by creepy and joyless people.