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When I lived in SF, the categorical hate towards tech workers (I was not a tech worker back then) was nothing like "mainstream". It was just a few extremists,
by thedevil 11y ago
When I lived in SF, the categorical hate towards tech workers (I was not a tech worker back then) was nothing like "mainstream". It was just a few extremists, a few protesters I might see in the news. I didn't actually know anyone like that. Journalists made it sound like a bigger thing than it was.
It's been over 3 years though. Has the anti-tech-worker hate really gone mainstream or are journalists continuing to inflate it?
- econner 11y agoJournalists continue to inflate it. I actually think folks are coming around more and more to work with tech vs. categorically fighting against it. I think people have begun to see the systemic problems and work together on those. Then again I did encounter a guy riding his bike around Market St. the other day screaming "Kill the Techies." But that's once in 5 years.
- wsinks 11y agoI actually gave an interview to a reporter for NPR recently. I work for a major tech company. Here's what I told him: I don't feel the hatred, and I think reports of it are either from areas where I haven't been in (so single events that I missed) or it's not actually a problem. All of his questions were leading questions into people hating on tech workers. I hang out with people of middle class, both upper and lower, go work occasionally with poorer people, and have rubbed my shoulders with a couple richer tech elite. I feel like the chances are I would've experienced the hatred. So either I'm missing out on a lot (I don't think I am..) or they're overblown.
- rco8786 11y agoI lived there for the last 3 years. When I got there it was a thing but not huge. By the time I left I would definitely consider it mainstream.