I thought that was a local (NIMBY/housing) issue? Do the shifting opinions mentioned in the article apply outside of silicon valley, and outside the US?

It's a developer 'wants to provide real estate cash flow' issue. Same people who provide early startup funding in other markets looking to drive relo and office rents.

10+ years is a long way from "always".

If people hate you for half your life it's close to being always.

I'm sure Fairchild Semiconductor had its detractors, but I wouldn't say anyone hated them except William Shockley.

The article lists some good causes, and they are fairly recent (Juicero was where I started to see real mockery of Silicon Valley startups). There are others that the author does not list, perhaps out of discretion:

* Tech profits concentrated in one geographic region have contributed to a high cost of living that makes life very hard for non-tech workers in the area, fostering resentment

* A lot of tech companies have ad- and engagement- based business models that are... not necessary healthy for their users, or for society

* Predatory data harvesting has led to a justified mistrust of new products and services

* New technology has always "disrupted" careers (farewell, ETAOIN SHRDLU), but advances in AI are threatening to do so in a way that most people thought would not be possible in their working lifetime, with these changes happening in the timescale between the time where you enroll in a particular major and graduate to an obsolete profession.

I mean, it's not like the last 10 years (2013+) have been a string of unwavering wins for the tech industry as a whole.

Facebook alone will damn us all.

"justified hatred", well there's a concept.

I think there's a difference between the average level headed person and a foaming at the mouth left wing San Francisco resident.