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"Tech bro" and "finance bro" are well-known archetypes. That we don't have equivalents for other high-profile, high-status, high-paying fields like "law bro" or "med bro" probably says something, but what exactly?
"Tech bro" is a tricky one, because it's coming from two directions at once.
On one hand, you have what is generally a younger, left wing contingent that dislikes the Alex Karps and Marc Andreeesens of the world, and that splashes out to the industry at large. Whether I like it or not, I have to admit that there's a narcissistic, sociopathic, bloviating, stimulant-addled contingent of people in silicon valley who do a fantastic job of ruining the image of the entire industry.
On the other hand, you have the executive class. They loathe the jumped-up peasants who have the raw fucking audacity to earn a decent wage without getting a degree from an Ivy League school and getting a certificate that lets them work in a highly gatekept field. At this point, I think a lot of them would gladly detonate their own companies if they thought it would hurt the tech employees more (I'm looking at you, Jassy).
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