No, the frightening thing is the people who are jerks, know it, and don't care. The Jerry Springerization [1] of the audience. Further there is a bit of nerd backlash in the heartland going on. While the readers here might aspire to being the next Zuckerberg, in central part of the US there is a statistically significant part of the population which has this 'over rich, under religious, morally suspect' view of "successful" people in tech.
[1] Jerry Springer, host of a TV show with people acting badly on it and essentially becoming 'famous' has made acting badly more acceptable to way too many people.
"While the readers here might aspire to being the next Zuckerberg, in central part of the US there is a statistically significant part of the population which has this 'over rich, under religious, morally suspect' view of "successful" people in tech."
Working in the fly-over (and quite cold this time of year) part of the states in a position that puts me in contact with quite literally thousands of them every quarter, I call BS on this one. I wouldn't say that most people see tech folks as that. I would say that most people in the farmy part of the country don't really have an opinion about the tech industry, and those that do see tech people as generally useless, or just disconnected from the lives of the rest of us.
They believe that there is a lot of money being thrown around, and that some of the technology coming from the coasts will be useful in their lives, or will be convenient for talking to people, but for the most part they're indifferent.
It has very little to do with religion or wealth, and more to do with lifestyle (city v country) and focus (work v family).
Seems like coastal tech types are more judgmental than these people living in the sneered-at "flyover states". The amount of contempt you see out here in the bay area is just staggering.
There might be an attribution error happening here, since Jerry Springer himself was previously most famous for acting badly, for paying a prostitute with a check while on the Cincinnati city council.
The reference is to even spiritual people who don't regularly attend an organized church being referred to as 'godless.'
And I will grant you it is difficult to pull statistics from the people who choose to comment on web sites. So it would more accurate to say 'of that group of people who comment on web sites' various themes pop up regularly with regard to stories of tech billionaires, festivals like Burning Man, and current trends in technology.
But now you've got me curious so its off to run a couple of surveys...
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No, the frightening thing is the people who are jerks, know it, and don't care. The Jerry Springerization [1] of the audience. Further there is a bit of nerd backlash in the heartland going on. While the readers here might aspire to being the next Zuckerberg, in central part of the US there is a statistically significant part of the population which has this 'over rich, under religious, morally suspect' view of "successful" people in tech.
[1] Jerry Springer, host of a TV show with people acting badly on it and essentially becoming 'famous' has made acting badly more acceptable to way too many people.
"While the readers here might aspire to being the next Zuckerberg, in central part of the US there is a statistically significant part of the population which has this 'over rich, under religious, morally suspect' view of "successful" people in tech."
Working in the fly-over (and quite cold this time of year) part of the states in a position that puts me in contact with quite literally thousands of them every quarter, I call BS on this one. I wouldn't say that most people see tech folks as that. I would say that most people in the farmy part of the country don't really have an opinion about the tech industry, and those that do see tech people as generally useless, or just disconnected from the lives of the rest of us.
They believe that there is a lot of money being thrown around, and that some of the technology coming from the coasts will be useful in their lives, or will be convenient for talking to people, but for the most part they're indifferent.
It has very little to do with religion or wealth, and more to do with lifestyle (city v country) and focus (work v family).
Seems like coastal tech types are more judgmental than these people living in the sneered-at "flyover states". The amount of contempt you see out here in the bay area is just staggering.
There might be an attribution error happening here, since Jerry Springer himself was previously most famous for acting badly, for paying a prostitute with a check while on the Cincinnati city council.
So is being 'under religious' (what a ridiculous phrase by the way) in their view correlated to being morally suspect?
The reference is to even spiritual people who don't regularly attend an organized church being referred to as 'godless.'
And I will grant you it is difficult to pull statistics from the people who choose to comment on web sites. So it would more accurate to say 'of that group of people who comment on web sites' various themes pop up regularly with regard to stories of tech billionaires, festivals like Burning Man, and current trends in technology.
But now you've got me curious so its off to run a couple of surveys...