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I am not from your tech utopia, but i get the feeling that your so called "values" are more to blame for the wealth disparity than any single actor, regardless of their net worth. Assuming you live in SV, you are the folks that moved there, get paid obscene money to wrangle 1s and 0s, drive up the property value, and demand changes to the community to suit your tastes. When you were boarding your chartered bus to get you safely to the Green Zone, did you think you were part of the solution? I can think of 1 famous conservative VC (not my world so there are presumably more) and maybe 2 companies that make some claim to be, or are labeled as, conservative. The vast majority of the SV tech crowd and companies are liberals, and your Bernie T-shirt doesn't make you an "ally". Be honest with yourself: SV companies generate spam email, dump tons of thermal excess into the environment, and gentrify neighborhoods. Acting like you are somehow a different breed, and not a parasitic community (i know that term seems negative or besmirching but i mean it in its purely biological form), is something no one else is falling for. I realize this is an emotional rant that brushes with broad strokes, but i am pretty tired of West Coast folks acting like everything was fine before Trump and conservatives are backwards racists incapable of espousing compassion or modernity. That isn't an excuse, it is an explanation.