I don't think it's politics so much. The problem with developing all or most of our software on the coasts is that a few things will happen:
- The coasts, which have a wildly different culture than much of the US if not the world, develop an outsized influence on and in software
- It removes people from their families for no reason eg: Tech is not like Wall St in the 90's where you needed to be there to be successful
- Tech is lucrative and it concentrates money in the innovation core of the US, which then prices out poorer states over time eg: How long will people in the middle of the US be able to afford the next iPhone if iPhone pricing is commensurate with the California standard of living and cost model?
Practically all tech is run by liberals, and large percentage are hard-left progressives. Their values are being pumped through the tech industry they've created and it is imposed through all platforms around the world.
I'd like to see more diversity of ideas, not some 100 people writing Twitter algorithms in SV where they have zero clue about how the rest of the world works.
Having any kind of dominant political culture at a company probably makes things pretty miserable on the whole so I empathize. I did look into what you said about politics (as opposed to culture) and you are right that a majority of tech companies are funneling money into Democratic PACs and candidates, though, I don't think many of these folks are progressives. What I do find really concerning is that most of these candidate donations are being sent to places where these companies clearly don't operate. That seems like a loophole worth closing.
- The coasts, which have a wildly different culture than much of the US if not the world, develop an outsized influence on and in software
- It removes people from their families for no reason eg: Tech is not like Wall St in the 90's where you needed to be there to be successful
- Tech is lucrative and it concentrates money in the innovation core of the US, which then prices out poorer states over time eg: How long will people in the middle of the US be able to afford the next iPhone if iPhone pricing is commensurate with the California standard of living and cost model?