I'm not sure if we disagree - this aspect of the tech industry's folks bothers me, but I see it as sociopathy - or more specifically, a notable lack of empathy

I'm not sure if we disagree - this aspect of the tech industry's folks bothers me, but I see it as sociopathy - or more specifically, a notable lack of empathy for others. It's not even rationalization most of the time (e.g., "this sucks but it's for the best"), as we see in this post it's outright hostility (i.e., "entitlement", "oh well", "commodity workers", etc). Technology, and startup money, give people an awful lot of influence and power - I'm bothered by the fact that a large portion of our community strut about with a lack of empathy and respect for the inhabitants of this world. I see many members of this community as miniature would-be robber barons. It's something I've been thinking about - I don't generally see this trait in people I know from other fields like science or math, not at this incidence rate anyways. Either there are many more empathy-less people (to avoid the s-word) in other fields than I can see, or there is indeed a higher concentration of them in our field. Neither option sits very well.