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There is a lot of value in introducing new valid useful ideas. This is what Silicon Valley did 20 years ago. Now, the way a lot of people see it is as a set of

• jrs95 8y ago
  You’re really throwing the baby out with the bath water here, though. And you have to focus on either straw men or specific anecdotes of “disruption” in order to paint this negative overall picture. In the case of yet another app to order pizza...if nobody uses it or cares about it, then who gives a fuck? “We should be hostile to people who are in the business of creating technology because they might make something nobody wants to buy” does not make sense. Sure, maybe they’re smug and elitist idiots doing this stuff. But does it matter? And who is it that’s so interested in maligning tech as a whole? It’s their competitors in trying to accumulate wealth and power. Who, for what it’s worth, are even smugger and more elitist. Overall, my opinion of this article is that it’s too narrowly focused and while it’s opinionated it’s also shallow. This is all typical of media now though. Ultimately this is part of a larger political context, and I think the underlying motivation for this articles and others like it is no different from Alexandra Pelosi’s “San Francisco 2.0”.