Lots of fun stuff in a recent @voxdotcom & @DataProgress poll on billionaires — turns out, most people don't think they should be abolished, nor that they're destroying democracy! — but the best parts related to tech companies & CEOs reason.com/2021/03/30/ame…
Bill Gates and Elon Musk elicited significantly more *favorable* views than not—55% favorable v. 35% unfavorable for Gates & 50% v 23% for Musk.
Folks were evenly split on Jeff Bezos reason.com/2021/03/30/ame…
Folks were evenly split on Jeff Bezos reason.com/2021/03/30/ame…
The only tech CEOs in the poll that people viewed more unfavorably than favorably was Mark Zuckerberg, with 54% seeing him negatively & just 31% seeing him positively reason.com/2021/03/30/ame…
As for "big tech" overall, 37% of ppl agreed that "American tech companies have done more good than bad for me and my family during the pandemic."
That's about the same amount as disagree (38%, with +/- 3 margin of error). Around a quarter didn't know reason.com/2021/03/30/ame…
That's about the same amount as disagree (38%, with +/- 3 margin of error). Around a quarter didn't know reason.com/2021/03/30/ame…
In conclusion, the idea that most Americans want Democrats to demonize billionaires, or want Congress to keep devoting so much time to punishing tech companies, is really silly...
One last comment, since I'm getting a little pushback about the poll questions/framing, w/folks saying its strawmen of progressive or leftist thought, etc. Guys, I didn't write the poll, a progressive think tank & media org did!
(I mean, you can still take issue with Vox & Data for Progress' frames here, obvi. But that is not on libertarians, @reason, or me)
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