That's just grossly twisting and simplying things to get a view that you like. It is tech that produces extreme wealth [1]. Google's Brin and Page, MS's Gates, FB's Zuckerberg, Oracle's Ellison, etc. They're all companies that're there and being driven by and with extremely wealthy individuals at the helm. If Page and Brin were doing similarly douchebaggy things, I would be completely okay with folks blocking Google buses. How else do you get attention and reparation of your woes these days when you've got little else that you can practically do?
[1]: The most pernicious variation is that new one known as the 'sharing economy', which is all about easy rent-seeking and exploiting society by profiting from externalities.
Take all the billionares from tech form the Forbes list, and try to distill out the egregious actions of that pool of billionaires.
Now rope the oil barons, Saudi princes, ball bearing magnates, Koch brothers, and Wal-Mart founders up, and distill out their egregious actions.
Prediction: the tech founders will be marked by things like "donating all their money to charitable foundations", and the rest of the billionaires will be known for things like "organizing efforts to disenfranchise large blocs of voters".
Furthermore, your jab at "the sharing economy", which I have qualms with as well (punch my name and "Airbnb" in the search box below; or, do the same with "Uber") is a red herring. Whatever you might think of Uber, their founders aren't restricting California beaches.
Likewise for politicians, cops, CEOs, lawyers etc.
Fortunately, the reputation of us techies isn't yet as bad as the reputation of bankers, politicians and lawyers! Just as well, as it's not clear to me that we have the will or ability to improve or manage our collective reputation.
More than twenty bus companies are shuttling workers to and from the factory.
And it's no big deal. Of course you curse them when you happen to be in traffic right behind several of those, but they evoke no hatred in the populace, but even some kind of pride.
But, of course, there's not much jealousy involved when it comes to Daimler. Everyone knows someone working there. And the workers there don't generally carry the stigma of being filthy rich.
Google is more elite, I guess.
But the problem is certainly not the buses or the traffic per se.
I can't. The comparisons to colonialism are laughable, at best. Tech employees are predominantly Americans who chose to live in Silicon Valley. So apparently moving within your own country and establishing a lasting presence (including friends and family) in your home is colonialism and military invasion now?
What exactly makes tech workers not locals? Many tech workers have lived in the Valley for over a decade. I surely hope that's long enough to establish that they are, in fact, locals.
This is just ridiculous.