Every time SF gentrification comes up on HN, it teaches me more about how the rich become detached from society and build their paranoid interpretations about h

Every time SF gentrification comes up on HN, it teaches me more about how the rich become detached from society and build their paranoid interpretations about how the lower classes see them. If you want to own it, own it. Just take an attitude of "We're richer and pushing you out of the city, deal with it." Stop trying to rationalize it as something else, you'll just wind up in a state of cognitive dissonance where you make up assumptions about what the interplay between classes are and surprise surprise, it turns out the interpretation you made up because you're disconnected to the people outside your class doesn't sound that bad to you. We know where we came from. For many of us, years growing up spent reading, tinkering, being maybe a little anti-social. A lot of us probably found a computer at a young age, and just felt a compulsion to learn how it worked. Now we're getting paid for it. This comment is on a article that starts with the crunchies, I'll just repost what John Oliver said at the crunchies. It didn't connect then, I doubt it will work now: "You already have all the money in the world. Why do you need awards after that? It is absolutely ridiculous. You’re no longer the underdogs, it’s very important that you realize that. You’re not the scrappy people that people get behind. It used to be that people who worked in the tech industry were emotional shut-ins who you could root for. Now those days are gone. You’re pissing off an entire city." Yes, this is aimed at the people at the top of the tech companies, not you, the rank and file worker. But you're defending the guys at the top, aren't you? Your bank account may be smaller, but how are you externally different?