San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and Hating Itself
&gt; Hordes of newly minted and newly wealthy tech bros, flush with Silicon Valley VC cash, ruined what once had been an all-are-welcome cool, gray city of love, where the funky landlady Anna<p>This article nicely represents the narccisistic hubris of the ivory tower leftist viewpoint, and in-group social behavior at large. Tech Bros are the nerds that were (and still are, despite shallow appropriations of nerd culture in the mainstream) cast off from &quot;normal&quot; society. This has been the norm in the U.S. for decades. It&#x27;s not cool to be smart and have geeky interests.<p>Now tech is hot and the in-group is having trouble competing with people for whom this wasn&#x27;t just a job or a class, or even a hobby, it was an escape. So they go after their characters to justify quotas and the now deliberate social stigma they were previously oblivious to enforcing. Tech Bros is a dirty class stereotype which totally ignores the passion and skill of the people who are revolutionizing society, for better or worse. And at the end of the day it&#x27;s just the weird nerd kids being bullied as always.<p>There&#x27;s an obscure blog by a guy who talks about the three or so stages of popular subcultures, and how one of the three groups eventualy ruin everything, linked in the comments below which is related.