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Re:Do People Hate the Tech Industry Now? by mitthrowaway2 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @11:13PM (#35177714)
10+ years is a long way from "always".
Re:Do People Hate the Tech Industry Now? by Zetobal on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @11:17PM (#35177731)
If people hate you for half your life it's close to being always.
Re:Do People Hate the Tech Industry Now? by mitthrowaway2 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @11:28PM (#35177796)
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.

Re:Do People Hate the Tech Industry Now? by Torifyme12 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @11:22PM (#35177757)
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.