It is completely inexcusable that people in STEM fields are so reactionary, considering how capitalism utterly destroys science.
If universities were actually "left wing indoctrination factories" like the right thinks they are, every STEM grad would be taught, for example, what Kropotkin had to say about innovation.
What really bothers me is that people implicitly don't consider a lot of STEM work to be "work", e.g.
A: "Lol, you like socialism, even though capitalism created your smartphone?"
B: "Labour created the smartphone. Capitalism just determined who got paid."
A: "Yeah right -- like a bunch of idiot factory workers could design a smart phone!"
...Implicitly ignoring that the people designing the technology are doing work.
That could be driving people away. People who hear about labor being in charge and not realizing that that's them.
Engineering isn't labor though, and I say that as an engineer. The vast majority of engineers in the US do nothing resembling actual design or innovation. They find ways to cut costs, to make products go obsolete, to make workers obsolete, and to sell shit and manipulate people.
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