Uncanny Valley
Great writing. It definitely hits on some truth and calls out  hypocrisies and absurdities that deserve to be called out.<p>Overall, though, I think this is unnecessarily negative.<p>I think you've got to keep some perspective. There are about eight billion people in the world. 7.9 billion of them would probably give almost anything to enjoy the lifestyle she so eloquently disparages.<p>> I lean in and go to a panel on big data. There are two venture capitalists onstage, dressed identically. They are exceptionally sweaty. [...] It’s like watching two ATMs in conversation.<p>> The food is served in sturdy tinfoil troughs, and people race to be first in line for self-serve. [It's] well worth someone else’s money, and every afternoon I shovel it into my body<p>So you viscerally dislike VCs, but you're cool with VC-funded startup perks.<p>> My roommate works down on the Peninsula, for a website that everyone loathes but no one can stop using.<p>So you also dislike Facebook, and you assume the other billion people using Facebook dislike it as well. You disapprove of your roommate's choice of job, you think they're wasting their time working on "a website that everyone loathes". Everything is terrible.<p>--<p>Her writing reminds me of Glenn Greenwald and Noam Chomsky -- two other writers that I respect, but who share a bad habit of hating on anything connected to money, ambition, or technologically driven human progress.