History Quotes / TechBro

->''"This phenomenon arose [[UsefulNotes/TheNewTens circa 2010]] when the proliferation of popular tech-themed movies such as'' Film/TwentyOne, Film/TheSocialNetwork, ''and'' Film/IronMan, ''and tech-celebrities such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, glamorized technical skills. As such those who often grew up as socially repressed outcasts or 'nerds' due to their academic or technical aptitude and social ineptitude now found themselves in socially desirable class of society. This incited a once repressed demographic to become much more socially active despite social cluelessness, resulting in an obnoxious culture that tends to mimic stereotypical 'jock', 'bro', or 'cool' culture in combination with the egotism, insensitivity, and terrible humor of 'nerd' culture."''
-->-- Website/UrbanDictionary's definition of [[https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brogrammer "brogrammer"]].

->''This phenomenon arose [[UsefulNotes/TheNewTens circa 2010]] when the proliferation of popular tech-themed movies such as'' Film/TwentyOne, Film/TheSocialNetwork, ''and'' Film/IronMan, ''and tech-celebrities such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, glamorized technical skills. As such those who often grew up as socially repressed outcasts or "nerds" due to their academic or technical aptitude and social ineptitude now found themselves in socially desirable class of society. This incited a once repressed demographic to become much more socially active despite social cluelessness, resulting in an obnoxious culture that tends to mimic stereotypical "jock", "bro", or "cool" culture in combination with the egotism, insensitivity, and terrible humor of "nerd" culture.''
-->--Website/UrbanDictionary's definition of [[https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brogrammer "brogrammer"]].

->''"It's amazing how you tech liberals are always the one to break the rules. They start out all disruptive and cool, and then it's like, "Oh, but we don't want to pay taxes, and we don't want to give our workers their rights, 'cause [[FromNobodyToNightmare we're just a scrappy little startup that started over a pizza shop, and the rules don't apply to us now that we have the wealth of a medium-sized country]]."''

->''"It's amazing how you tech liberals are always the one to break the rules. They start out all disruptive and cool, and then it's like, "Oh, but we don't want to pay taxes, and we don't want to give our workers their rights, 'cause we're just a scrappy little startup that started over a pizza shop, and the rules don't apply to us now that we have the wealth of a medium-sized country."''

->''This phenomenon arose circa 2010 when the proliferation of popular tech-themed movies such as'' Film/TwentyOne, Film/TheSocialNetwork, ''and'' Film/IronMan, ''and tech-celebrities such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, glamorized technical skills. As such those who often grew up as socially repressed outcasts or "nerds" due to their academic or technical aptitude and social ineptitude now found themselves in socially desirable class of society. This incited a once repressed demographic to become much more socially active despite social cluelessness, resulting in an obnoxious culture that tends to mimic stereotypical "jock", "bro", or "cool" culture in combination with the egotism, insensitivity, and terrible humor of "nerd" culture.''

-->--Website/UrbanDictionary's ''definition of [[https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brogrammer "brogrammer"]].''

->''The reason men like Musk and Bezos are worshipped by people who use Website/{{Twitter}} like it's [=LinkedIn=] is because they're successful disruptors. They're the underdogs, the innovators, the vanquishers of the old [[Film/WallStreet Gordon Gekko]] [[{{Yuppie}} approach]] to self-centered capitalism. Thanks to them we have returned to the power of the marketplace of ideas, [[RagsToRiches where you can change the world with nothing more than a dream, a garage office and a substantial loan from your dad.]]\\
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This is why thousands of STEM Steves and one to two STEM Stacies head down to Silicon Valley every year like it's the Gold Rush but, instead of gold, they mine your data for shopping preferences. These hopefuls are lured in with mantras like "Move fast and break things," or "If things are not failing, you're not innovating," or "Work hard. Have fun. Change history," thinking they too can become the next Zuckerberg, Musk, or Bezos respectively. But while those men became icons armed with nothing but a few lines of code and a good pitch, they're also the reason why those days are long gone.\\
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Today, Silicon Valley has been turned from a temple to meritocracy to a pyramid project pre-Moses. While tech innovators may have traded suits for socks and sandals, and turned bleak cubicles into [[WackyStartupWorkplace graffiti-covered break rooms with ping-pong tables]], the end result remained the same. Several investigative reports have pointed out that, while mega-corporations like Website/{{Google}} and Creator/{{Apple}} still tout their old soundbites of rewarding risk-taking and thinking out of the box, they cultivate a suffocating subordinate culture with the kind of orthodoxy that makes medieval crusaders look like pretty open-minded guys. No wonder that Silicon Valley is sometimes referred to as "[[FeudalFuture feudalism but with better marketing]]," where a disgustingly rich upper-class of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive first-come executives]] control their lowly, semi-homeless software serfs with a carpal-tunnel-riddled iron fist.''
-->-- Website/{{Cracked}}, [[https://www.cracked.com/article_29609_4-reasons-myth-tech-genius-dead.html "4 Reasons Tech Titans Went From Gods to Garbage"]]

->''Today, Silicon Valley has been turned from a temple to meritocracy to a pyramid project pre-Moses. While tech innovators may have traded suits for socks and sandals, and turned bleak cubicles into [[WackyStartupWorkplace graffiti-covered break rooms with ping-pong tables]], the end result remained the same. Several investigative reports have pointed out that, while mega-corporations like Website/{{Google}} and Creator/{{Apple}} still tout their old soundbites of rewarding risk-taking and thinking out of the box, they cultivate a suffocating subordinate culture with the kind of orthodoxy that makes medieval crusaders look like pretty open-minded guys. No wonder that Silicon Valley is sometimes referred to as "[[FeudalFuture feudalism but with better marketing]]," where a disgustingly rich upper-class of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive first-come executives]] control their lowly, semi-homeless software serfs with a carpal-tunnel-riddled iron fist.''

-->-- Website/{{Cracked}}, [[https://www.cracked.com/article_29609_4-reasons-myth-tech-genius-dead.html 4 Reasons Tech Titans Went From Gods to Garbage]]