Tech startup founder-programmers have replaced rock stars and professional athletes as the idolized figures of young males everywhere. Look at the people the V

Tech startup founder-programmers have replaced rock stars and professional athletes as the idolized figures of young males everywhere. Look at the people the VCs are funding right now: frat boys and bullies (and sell-out ex-nerds who became bullies in adulthood, once one no longer needed to risk physical pain and harm in order to be a bully). Not nerds who actually love technology. Instead of taking the nerds' lunch money, the bullies are now using MBA-school tricks, under the new banner of startup "culture" (stigniness), to work the nerds 90 hours per week for 0.03% of something. They've become better at what they do, but they haven't changed. I attacked this here: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/corporate-work-is-the-most-elaborate-victim-shaming-structure-ever-devised/ http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/corporate-wor... . The institutional hell that, PG asserts, forms in organizations that have lost a sense of purpose (but still require a hierarchy) is, in fact, as prevalent in most corporations (even tech companies) as it is in high schools. Raging against the jock machine is a lot more fun than being the machine. What? That is patently untrue. People on the inside may humble-brag about how much simpler life was on the outside, but they never give up what they have. Also, minor nit: in reality, "jocks" are rarely the same people as bullies. Athletes work too hard for that shit. Moreover, it's not the popular kids (yet another set) who pick on the nerds, geeks, and freaks. It's usually mid-range kids trying to push themselves up by knocking someone down. The worst bullies are other outsiders trying to get in to the popular crowd, but who tend to fail at it.