Who killed Silicon Valley?

Silicon Valley was found dead this morning in an alley in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district.

Much of what progressives scream about as they attack the technology giants is factually correct, if a little colored-in with vitriol and hyperbole.

It’s true that technology has been bad for poor people. And black people and Latinos. It has vaporized millions of half decent jobs in retail, manufacturing and services. It has brought great wealth to tech elites (some who were once tech non-elites but well positioned to benefit). It has lifted educated people with an interest in innovation and bold change. It has sucker-punched the old men in suits who chose to mock the jeans-and-tee-shirts geeks as they dared to have silly ideas like hailing a cab with a smartphone or tracking your bike / run activity and sharing it with your friends. It has completely humiliated, exiled and dismantled the blue collar communities who chose to hunker down in affordable midwestern suburbia and spend time with family and baseball and beer.

Technology has drawn the ire of the progressives who once admired San Francisco’s freewheeling informality and openness to LGBT and women — they loved the stock options thing, which promised to lift some lucky people from rat race to high net worth. They woke up one day and decided that was all fake, and that the robber barons had come…