I hate the word "techie". It sounds like something a four-year-old came up with. Can we fucking retire it, please? The article is right that the average charac

I hate the word "techie". It sounds like something a four-year-old came up with. Can we fucking retire it, please? The article is right that the average character of professional software engineers and technologists is quite good-- and far better than that of the VC-istan "cool kids". The problem? The former don't matter much, not in terms of the ability to set the terms of cultural and civic life. It's the Randtard billionaires who get to play that game; they have the free time, influence, and disposable income. The upsetting thing is that this backlash, like all, will target all the wrong people. Do rank-and-file Googlers, commuting by bus for two hours each day, deserve to bear the brunt of it? Of course not. They're not the ones who pushed through the NIMBY codes and caused San Francisco's rent problem, and they're victims of this bullshit system just as much as anyone else.