Tech's vitriol toward non-technical types isn't about money, argues wordgrammer
wordgrammer · x · 2026-11-11
wordgrammer analyzes tech culture: the industry's disdain for MBA types was never about money—Thiel-era MBAs made fortunes too. It was aesthetic revulsion at pedigree obsession, indifference to ideas, and dumbing oneself down to be legible to the establishment. Nerds fled, and by sheer luck surpassed the MBA class by orders of magnitude.
His warning: most people today need to recognize that "managing agents" instead of writing emails still makes you the new managerial class.
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