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Techcrunch forgets its a "Part" of Silicon Valley. Most Valley stories cannot be told without Techcrunch in it e.g the T.v show - Silicon Valley.
by hienyimba 9y ago
Techcrunch forgets its a "Part" of Silicon Valley. Most Valley stories cannot be told without Techcrunch in it e.g the T.v show - Silicon Valley.
- FussyZeus 9y agoI don't understand the point of this observation; are you saying they aren't allowed to criticize? Or that they are guilty of the same things? Or that they're somehow complicit? What are you getting at?
- snerbles 9y agoWe become desensitized to certain forms of stimuli over time. Someone with horrendous body odor may not even notice it at first, but once he can actually smell it the stench is making his neighbors gag. In other words, it's bad enough that TechCrunch has noticed.
- snerbles 9y agoThe author danced around but missed the detached, holier-than-thou elitism that radiates from the entire Bay Area.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoThat's like saying an atom bomb produces a warm glow.
- CalChris 9y agoThere's a huge difference between being elite (we are and I sure am) and elitism. In fact the author stabs at the heart of Silicon Valley elitism: Your ideas are only as good as the people in the room. And your door is shut to most people.
- Clubber 9y agoI don't think I've ever heard someone call themselves elite outside of a gaming session. You should probably use the numbers 1337 though. Wouldn't calling yourself elite, seemingly unaware of what that projects to people count as elitism?
- CalChris 9y agoIf Michael Jordan calls himself elite, is he an elitist? If a quite successful Valley engineer calls himself elite, am I an elitist? These are different words. Populists will call SV elitist. That doesn't make them right.
- Clubber 9y agoThat's kinda the point. I don't believe MJ ever called himself elite. He didn't really need to, did he?
- CalChris 9y agoHe did. He may have never used that word but he was the biggest trash talker. At the Olympic workouts there was an All Star's All Star game and afterward he told Magic Johnson there was new sheriff in town. http://www.businessinsider.com/magic-johnson-trash-talking-michael-jordan-story-2016-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/magic-johnson-trash-talking-m... Elitism is a self-protecting cabal. SV doesn't really do that. That's the point of disruptive technology. You're disrupting an existing order. That's anti-elitist.