Why No One Wants to Date Tech Bros

Lammy

Don't call me a slur in the headline and maybe I'd read your article, Wired

hungryhobbit

Why does anyone submit paywalled links to Hacker News without including a paywall bypass link? It's like "here, everyone read this interesting thing ... oh wait 99% of you can't read it, ha ha".

bell-cot

Back in the late Vietnam (War) days, you might not score with the ladies by talking about your highly-paid job at a munitions company, or making Agent Orange. And the leaders of those industries really weren't in the same league as many of today's top tech zillionaires, for public perception of being alpha sociopaths.

onion2k

It's entirely reasonable for women (and men) to choose partners they want to be around. It's not about money, or career choices. It's about the fact that being around people who are diametrically opposed to your world view just isn't fun. The problem is that 'tech bro' types want to date left-leaning, idealistic women rather than the much more suitable career-oriented, right-wing women who share their outlook. It's really hard to date people outside of your world view because they don't find you attractive. You don't get to have all the money and status of a well-paying tech job, and also date people who don't find money and status attractive. This isn't complicated.

BugsJustFindMe

> " 23-year-old Gary ... explained to a woman why he took an engineering job at Palantir... $250,000 salary would allow him to help pay off his parents’ mounting medical bills, he explained. " > " that line about the medical debt. His parents don’t have any, nor are they ill. " Area man who builds oppression machinery and who is a liar is sad that other people are turned off by both of those things. Also, lying to someone to convince them to have sex with you means you don't care about consent. There isn't a bigger turn-off in the world than that.