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I’m In Tech, I’m In Silicon Docks, And I’m Not Liking Trump’s Return To Office
A look at tech’s future from inside Ireland’s Silicon Docks…
Call me selfish if you will. I’ve kept a watchful eye over American presidential elections ever since I moved to Ireland, more specifically to the heart of Dublin. And I don’t even like or care much about politics. But being an immigrant from Eastern Europe now holding three citizenships one of which — the Hungarian — has lost most of its value in just a few years, I can’t help but care, at least a little more than before. Because I happen to live in Ireland, I happen to work in tech and I like having a roof over my head and keeping one over my aging, ill parents’. Trump’s return to office puts all of that in jeopardy.
An unfortunate truth is that no mistake an economic or political superpower makes remains unpunished. Germany is in deep crisis, Russia is throwing an existential fit and the US somehow just managed to elect once more a president that should have never seen the inside of the White House. How a convict not only manages to campaign, but win is beyond me and beyond democracy. But understanding that the repercussions and the collateral damage caused by such a mistake is beyond no-one. One does not have to be a political genius to understand Trump’s return to office spells bad…
