With the caveat below, I think this is dead-on — particularly when coupled with 'imgabe's point [0] (backed by research [1]) that people of lower status often a

With the caveat below, I think this is dead-on — particularly when coupled with 'imgabe's point [0] (backed by research [1]) that people of lower status often abuse/bully/denigrate others whom they perceive to be of even lower status, in effort to appear (or at least feel) like they're higher status than they actually are, themselves. > The pilot fish of the tech industry, particularly tech "journalists", are far more toxic actors than anything deeply seated within it. This, however, is a pretty substantial (and at least from the text of your comment, unsupported) claim. Can you elaborate? EDIT: Phrasing, footnotes [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17257957 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17257957 [1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131613 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....