But can we stop referring to this class of delusional oligarchs as "Silicon Valley" or "the tech world," etc? Rank and file engineers, even most of the exceptional and high ranking ones, simply do not share the worldviews of the VCs and Musks and Thiels of the world. Many do, sure (probably over-represented on this site), but nothing like a majority. And I'm tired of being implicitly lumped in with them as part of "the tech world." This is an oligarch problem more than a tech problem.
I hear you. But on the flipside, everyone who works in the industry and isn't pushing to fix the problem is helping to perpetuate the problem (myself included). We are enabling them to operate as they do, after all, regardless of whether or not we share that worldview.
It doesn't really matter at all, frankly. The workplace is not a democracy, it's a dictatorship. Whether you view the workers as nuanced complex moral human beings or just cogs doesn't change the impact the companies have on the world.
But can we stop referring to this class of delusional oligarchs as "Silicon Valley" or "the tech world," etc? Rank and file engineers, even most of the exceptional and high ranking ones, simply do not share the worldviews of the VCs and Musks and Thiels of the world. Many do, sure (probably over-represented on this site), but nothing like a majority. And I'm tired of being implicitly lumped in with them as part of "the tech world." This is an oligarch problem more than a tech problem.