Telling to be down voted.

Hard truths are hard.

Cliché though it may be, with great power comes great responsibility.

Tech culture, as epitomized by the general readership of this site, have to great degree, if of course not uniformly, abdicated that responsibility;

and the general leadership of the industry and as epitomized by the culture Y Combinator has helped build, are much more uniform in this abdication.

There is neither political nor moral mystery here; there is just denialism, ignorance, and avoidance.

If you feel attacked by these accusations, as always it's a fine time to ask why.

What accommodations have you made...? What expedience have you allowed? What do you look away from or shy from reasoning through about the impact of the technologies you work on, the behavior of your employer?

That everyone is complicit is not a defense; it's an indictment.

The violence of present concern is a wholely natural and entirely predictable response to the diffused violence our industry and capitalism generally has performed against a humanity, not to mention to the biosphere.

Violence will continue, and if you think it is indefensible—provide then some alternative mechanism for steering resources and allocation of power.

We, collectively, constructed the tensions which are now resolving in exactly the manner one would expect, if only one were remotely familiar with history or indeed human nature.

Those in tech who declined to study or understand the humanities may be surprised to learn that the forces at work have well understood and inspected patterns. Ignorance is no excuse.