[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.