“nerds now that they are actually not socially despised any more.”

- go to any working class area in San Francisco and tell them you work in big tech . See if you are not socially despised . Go tell anyone working blue collar jobs that you work in big tech in the Bay Area or Seattle and see if their reaction is not one of despisal.

That did not exist before unless I was living in a bubble.

> go to any working class area in San Francisco and tell them you work in big tech . See if you are not socially despised . Go tell anyone working blue collar jobs that you work in big tech in the Bay Area or Seattle and see if their reaction is not one of despisal.

This doesn’t have anything to do with being a ‘nerd’ or even “big tech”. It’s about housing costs and the result of NIMBYism from long term residents longing for the past.

People are going to move to the Bay, you can’t stop change. If you make it harder only the people with more money will be here which is what’s happening.

I'd say people are moving away, especially those in tech. Why pay more for less when you don't have to?

Most of the out migration from expensive regions is low and middle income earning families. There’s a net in migration of high income households.

Nietzsche wrote extensively about this phenomenon in his genealogy of morals.

> Only those who suffer are good, only the poor, the powerless, the lowly are good; the suffering, the deprived, the sick, the ugly, are the only pious people, the only ones saved, salvation is for them alone, whereas you rich, the noble and powerful, you eternally wicked cruel, lustful, insatiate, godless, you will be eternally wretched, cursed and damned. (OGM 1:7)

As I understand it people were complaining about this in the 90s in SF, so yes you were probably living in a bubble.

Of course they’re despised. Strange people with alien interests doing incomprehensible jobs making tons of money. Animus is normal and actual behavior is ~irrelevant.

Dislike of yuppies is almost 40 years old at this point.