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Silicon Valley Has an Arrogance Problem
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoAs much as I normally don't grant points to the Wall Street Journal, I'm granting this one. Proposals for techno-libertarian entrepreneurial utopias on the sea are just the tip of the iceberg. After those, we have to address the property regime that makes the Bay Area increasingly uninhabitable to run-of-the-line engineers, the exclusion and marginalization of the everyday working class people who make the whole area run (see: the BART strike), and the entire underlying sentiment of "Software engineering is the master race". When we have started thinking of ourselves as the indispensable heart of society and everyone else as mere utilities for use to exploit, yes, we have become extremely arrogant and need to be reigned in.
- FellowTraveler 13y agoWall Street has an arrogance problem. Mainstream journalism has an arrogance problem.