I have been a tech worker since 2001. I help save the lives of sick and injured people. I do not cross 520 ever; I live in Seattle. My badge comes off when I leave work. I do not roam the streets gazing longingly into a device, trying to look sophisticated. I do not engage in loud, pointless tech conversations on the street to try to impress anyone. I commute to work.

It's the bezos-butt-lickers that inspire the deserved Seattle techie stereotypes. These kids roll out of school ready to kiss ass and be completely butt-fucked by an employer who prefers to grind out naive people (fresh graduates, disenfranchised foreigners) rather than treat them like humans. Seriously, their whole business model is built on pureeing the freshest meat. I have met that meat after processing.

And Courtney Maum makes really dumb faces for the camera. She is affecting the "ugly duckling" selfie-stick smirk at every lens that comes near her. Makes her look like dumb millennial techie.

Or even Uber or Lyft—you're inoculating yourself against the indignity of having to go out and wait for a cab like a common person.

My (solidly middle-class) grandparents used telephones to call for cabs in New York. Neither of them would ever touch a smart-phone in their lives.

Do we need fingers to write, to hold pens? Or should we have flippers to swipe? What's going to happen to handwriting?

https://xkcd.com/1227/

The back-and-forth that you and I are having right now—we're having a proper chat.

No dear, it's a transactional conversation: you're selling a book and she's interviewing you for her employer.

Lol seems like she pretty clearly refuted your interpretation of her book and you still used it for the headline

Its The Stranger. They depict Amazon and tech workers as the evil other as much as possible (while using Amazon/AWS tech and Amazon advertising on this very site...). The writer seems to have a more nuanced take.

internet office satire is next to people stealing grocery carts on issues needing support and explanation.