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Some of the very worst of the worst liberal takes, apologia for fascist shit, and of course cryptobro grifts and even Tesla worship keep coming from there. It's fucked.
I don't want to say all programmers or tech workers are like that, but I don't like what I've seen so far from people with a .programming suffix on their names. 
The thing that frustrates me most about that crowd is that they are totally blind to their own privilege. Many of them are raised by parents who worked for the military industrial complex and were given computers and education in STEM fields from a very young age. I'm talking tutors, extracurricular activities, better teachers, smaller class sizes, charter schools, the works. The apartment complex I grew up in the late 1990s and early 2000s, almost no kids had computers in their house, and if they did, it was just so their parents could like do email or something once a month. Meanwhile every STEM guy I know had a dad who was giving him HTML and C++ textbooks at like the age of 8. And these guys get this massive head start, and they think they were just smarter than everyone else and that the working class are just a bunch of willfully ignorant people playing with their own shit all day. Nobody is growing up in poverty taking care of younger siblings or aging grandparents, no no no, we just all decided to be lazy for no reason.
relevant comic
I saw that image a good while ago and made the mistake of not saving it. This time I did. Thanks!