San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and Hating Itself

Re:San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and H... by majos on Sunday December 22, 2019 @12:41AM (#21855439)

But “techies” mostly aren’t the CEO-types who try to do all this disruption. They’re mostly developers who like to get paid to do semi-interesting work. The messianic stuff is largely confined to a small, loud group, I think.

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Re:San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and H... by eecsninja on Sunday December 22, 2019 @12:47AM (#21855463)

This is exactly it. There's a lot of apex fallacy going on in the discussion of tech.

Most of us in tech don't have any say in the direction of the industry. Many of the rank and file workers would actually prefer to live someplace cheaper like Seattle, but it's the leadership of the tech industry (VCs, execs, etc) that have been slow to geographically diversify the industry.

There's too much blaming of all techies for the actions of the people at the top of the tech hierarchy.

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Re:San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and H... by enraged_camel on Sunday December 22, 2019 @12:57AM (#21855507)

>> Most of us in tech don't have any say in the direction of the industry.

We would have a say in it if we, you know, unionized.

But last time I checked, most techies viewed unions with disdain.

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