[albacur]

I realize the big tech companies aren’t perfect.

But it’s weird to me that when tech is one of the few bright spots of the U.S. economy in our lifetimes, and one of the few industries offering a large swath of employees a path to the middle class and upper-middle class that only previous generations could aspire to, and there are so many people hell bent on capping it at its knees.

[Nasrudith]

That is easy to understand - the old stagnation hates growth with an undying passion and envy. They take what they think they are entitled to (customers) that were never theirs and by doing better make them question their own worth. It is just so much easier to hate than to try to do anything better. And that applies to so many things at all walks of society and the crab-bucket mentality.

The fact it is "nerdy" just ads fuel to the fire given the anti-intellectuslism, that they already committed lives to their existing paths, and that provokes envy far beyond say bankers. They imagine only a lack of money stops them from being rich off of passive income (there are also mentality changes involved including ability to evaluate them but they are ignorant of them) but tech riches? To imagine changing would call for themselves to imagine themselves degraded. Nerds being successful instead of ones to look down upon are abomination to their social order and conception of the world.

The hysteria against "monopolies" with a tortured definition is just an extension of the crab bucket envy. Not wanting help but to drag others down with them.