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The existing upper classes were always uncomfortable with the newly rich. Royalty/aristocracy to merchants, the landed classes to the city-dwelling commercial professionals - and now, the intellectual elite to high-growth Internet startups. It's a travesty what Parker did in that park, but that's not what the article is about. The article is about how all the the Internet startup world are douchebags who don't know their place because they have gotten their hands on a lot of money but none of the cool reflective sense and taste that (presumably) The Atlantic and its intellectual readers possess.