Honestly, calling it "tech" is a bit of an insult to the idea of tech. Sure, there are some good examples in San Francisco, like Pixar. Ed Catmull is a genius who invented 3d animation, that's technology. Google at the very least helped shape the internet as we know it today, and Apple can at least be called a real competitor to Microsoft for desktops (although Linux is objectively superior).

Now look at where we are, bullshit apps that are rapidly enshittifying before our eyes and a bunch of useless startups probably created as part of a money laundering scheme. Speaking of which, since no one wants to live alongside CHUDs, the Bay Area has the most overvalued housing in the world. I'm from bumfuck nowhere, and I always looked up to San Francisco growing up, and seeing it in its gentrified state makes my blood boil: the wealthy have no taste and their wealth is wasted on them.

Why can't they go fuck off to Martha's vineyard or some antebellum south town instead of safe havens for weirdos?