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I don't think it's disliking tech people so much as disliking a monoculture.
by paulgb 9y ago
I don't think it's disliking tech people so much as disliking a monoculture.
- badpun 9y agoTrue, but a city of "artists" is also a monoculture.
- jhbadger 9y agoLess so, because in reality most "artists" actually end up doing normal jobs to make a living in a variety of fields and just keep art as a side interest. A city of hobbyist programmers wouldn't necessarily be a monoculture either.
- badpun 9y agoIn current realities that's probably true. I've read about a city (town) of artists in post WWI France, which was dominated by Americans who moved there to pursue their artistic interests (painting). They were regular American folks, but thanks to the wealth disparity between USA and France at the time, they were basically wealthy by French standards, which allowed them to live a life of leisure and do nothing but paint. In that city, there were the dominant part of the population.
- paulgb 9y agoIn practice, it becomes an artist/yuppie duoculture within a decade :)