[lhnz]

Why so negative?

If any industry is to call itself disruptive surely it should be ours.

Edit: -4 points and counting but nobody to dispute whether negativity is actually a bad thing or whether the technology industry hasn't been "disruptive". Well okay free-minded people, do your thing.

[CalRobert]

Think I need that plugin...

[djur]

In the world outside the tech bubble, being "disruptive" is a bad thing, bringing to mind a bull in a china shop. Inside the bubble, everything claims to be "disruptive" now. The term is as diluted and stained as "synergy", just another word ground into the dirt by the gaggle of suit-and-sandal VCs and startup hawkers.

[forgottenpass]

If any industry is to call itself disruptive surely it should be ours.

If any industry is arrogant enough to make the locals of the city we move to for work hate us, surely it is ours.

[lhnz]

That's a very manipulative comment you've written.

I won't fault you for your opinion that it is arrogance to say that technology is disruptive.

However, I would like to point out that it is technological disruption which causes the economic disruption to previous settlers and this often happen when rent-seekers try to make a profit off a quickly rising class.

It's not "brogrammers arrogance" and words like "disruption" that are driving out the more humble people. It's rising rent which is the problem. The new engineering class has had a tax placed upon it by elites and the original workers are just collateral damage.

Do tech workers really want rising rent? When A raises prices on B and causes C to be driven from a market it is not B's fault for existing or wanting to congregate somewhere in the world.

I don't live in SV. Maybe those people are truly arrogant. Maybe this has everything to do with their arrogance, and nothing to do with the rent-seeking being imposed on them.

[forgottenpass]

I'm not talking about the economic disruption to the city per se, I'm talking about the social arrogance of the people on the ground. Both in general and specifically how they think about the economic changes.

[lhnz]

I just get annoyed that people want to shit on tech workers for pushing them out of a city when it's clearly rent-seeking and bad policy that those tech workers have little control over causing the problems.

When firing a gun point it at the right people. Anti-tech sentiment will cause cultural problems without fixing the underlying economic problems. It's sad.

Edit: I'd take a bet that a bunch of mostly introverted nerds don't have anyway as big of an arrogance problem as many other groups might.

[stackcollision]

Maybe that's true, but the fetishization of 'disruption' is getting a little ridiculous. I'm certainly downloading this.

[lhnz]

This fetishizes bullshit.

Tell me when you next launch bullshit product, bro.

[jevgeni]

I'm sorry, but I work in banking and if 2008-2012 showed us anything, is that we can "disrupt" pretty much the whole economy.

[angersock]

I too would consider finance a very disruptive industry.