[laidoffamazon]

1) It's real persecution 2) I think the last thing they need is even more constant adoration for their intelligence, which they definitely believe is genetically derived 3) I think he literally should have googled "Pioneer Fund" before naming it that because it's literally a disambiguation on Wikipedia [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Fund

[entropy47]

I don't think I'm going to be able to change your mind, but chatting to some more Stanford grads might. Not everybody is the stereotype. I'm sorry you've had such a bad experience.

Just for the record, I studied at a very unprestigious journalism school in Australia. But I work with many Stanford grads and in a company with it's fair share of assholes, they have all been lovely.