What is wrong with the tech industry?

Everyone seems to use it and enjoy it.

I don't know anyone that is tech-free.

A company creates hundreds of well-paid jobs and is considerate enough of the environment and the impact on traffic that it provides buses for its employees, and what is the reaction? "Fuck Zuck" and slashed tires. Sheer, unmitigated douchebaggery at its worst.

Cities are dynamic; they can't be locked into place and unchangeable. If you want to see a city that's not gentrifying, visit Detroit, Camden, NJ or East St. Louis. The neighborhood I live in in NYC was middle class in the 19th century, a working class slum in the early 20th century, and upper class today. Those changes are driven by supply and demand. If people want Oakland to remain affordable to the working class, that responsibility lies not with Facebook or with it's employees, but with the Oakland City Government (who, quite honestly, might need the property tax revenue that upper class residents can pay).

The 1% are succeeding at getting the rest of us to fight over the scraps.

Rents really are a problem where there's a concentration of tech companies. But I agree, the anger isn't really hitting the right targets.

Joy.

My parents are artists, and to be truthful, they acquired some comfortable wealth, equivalent to their pensions and social security, "homesteading" in sketchy neighborhoods, all for the simple reason those sketchy neighborhoods were the only places they could afford to live as artists.

My family curse is that we always move away long before a thousand dollar property turns into a million dollar property, all because we don't like the new neighbors, and they don't like us.

One of my great grandfather's owned some fairly substantial chunks of San Francisco and Los Angeles, but he bet it all, and lost it all, on the aircraft and movie industries, before the stock market crash, before World War II. He simply didn't live long enough to see his visions of the future come true. His wife was a more conservative sort. Her favorite house has been torn down and is now the parking lot of a strip mall. Her Los Angeles house is gone too. For many years it was across the street from a strip club, but that neighborhood is now gentrified and the strip club is gone. Rents for a small apartment there exceed $2100. Great grandma's house in San Francisco, long sold, has been subdivided into very small apartments. My grandma's childhood bedroom is now an apartment with an entire Middle Eastern family living in it.

but is usually a worthwhile thing to do.

I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire.

Money changes everything, and not for the better.

were actually honking in support.

I bet everyone involved is on Facebook and probably posted to social media of their involvement.

Wow, what a country we've become.