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The vilification of the “tech bro” is really such a tragedy (I know, preaching to the choir here). We’re just people, trying to make a living for ourselves, and doing the things we enjoy. Our culture is no better than anyone else’s. But neither is that of those lived in the Bay Area for the previous decades. Why should we be denied the life we were meant to live because they were here first and they don’t have room for us? There’s plenty of room for everyone to coexist, if we make it.

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It is really weird to be called a bro when I’ve been bullied by bros for half of my life. I came here to get away from the bros, and based on the behavior of people I encounter on a daily basis, this was successful.

"Tech bro" describes a few people at the top (think Adam Neumann or Travis Kalanick) known for their bad behavior but unfortunately is used by the media to paint the rest of the men in tech with the same negative light.

The irony is that these people don't have a strong technical role -- they are mostly founders and executives. It's the people working under them with less influence who are doing all the hands-on tech work.

While I don’t agree with the label, one could argue that there’s a deep problem at the heart of tech culture where developers are happy to prop up cultish frauds or criminal behavior for a good paycheck. Neither Neumann or Kalanick got to where they are without a lot of people enabling them.

But that's the thing- there isn't plenty of room, both in terms of affordable housing, and in actual housing (SF is 49 sq. miles hemmed in by the sea). And as our industry gets more entrenched, we are creating that which is directly in contravention of one of our craft's most important axioms: a monoculture.

49 square miles used improperly. We could house millions with the ancient technology of the apartment building.

SF is ridiculously non-dense. Paris, which most people think of as a much nicer city than SF, is much more dense, despite being limited to ~5 stories for most of it.

Greed, meet envy

"Tragedy"?

Like it or not, male technologists are privileged beneficiaries of SF's broken social order. They might not be individually responsible for what's broken, but if there is "really such a tragedy" in the city, it is certainly not the fact that some guys are being stereotyped and mocked on Twitter.

Beneficiaries? We’re the ones paying the rent, bro.

Well, we can pay the rent. Think how do lower class people manage? They don't.

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