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In other non surprising news "tech bros are grifters"
Google search isn't a grift. Microprocessors isn't a grift. Video games aren't a grift. Social media isn't a grift.
Only some of the tech that comes from silicon valley tech bros is grifts. Some of it was legitimately revolutionary.
It's an important distinction that while tech (generally speaking) isn't a grift, there are a lot of grifters in the tech industry, those are the tech bros the comment you're replying to mentions. They don't see tech as a tool for their users, they see it as a vessel to extract money from investors until they get enough users from whom to extract money so they don't need investment money any more
I don't think it anymore applies in all cases of silicon valley tech entrepreneurs
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_bro