[fatneckbeard]

why does it feel like every tech website turns into an amateur humanities and economics discussion group?

[fullshark]

It's a topic everyone has an opinion on I guess and engagement drives what gets surfaced.

[the_third_wave]

Because everything is subject to politics so discussing tech automatically leads to discussing politics. Where politics is discussed people tend to have different opinions which leads to longer discussions [1] which makes this all the more visible.

[1] ...and lots of greyed-out posts, unfortunately

[twelve40]

because this stuff affects everyone including startups

[seydor]

they are easy subjects