Peter Thiel Thinks There's Not Enough Sex In Silicon Valley (businessinsider.com) 283
Peter Thiel recently complained parts of Silicon Valley are "hyper-politically correct" about sexual activity, and shared a friend's theory that conservative parts of America tolerate Silicon Valley "because people there just don't have that much sex. They're not having that much fun." Long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike quotes Business Insider's investigation into Thiel's claim.
Silicon Valley has the highest ratio of single men to single women... (However, it's worth noting that the San Francisco metropolitan area also has the highest ratio of people who identify as LGBT in the U.S.) In fact, Dr. Sandra Lindholm, a sex therapist and clinical psychologist in the Bay Area, recently told Forbes that she's now seeing an uptick in young, male clients who complain about a variety of sexual challenges and issues. "They're coming to sex therapy because they don't feel they have time or energy for sex," Lindhold said.
Some of the common issues include low sexual desire, difficulty meeting women, and performance issues. Plus, she points out people in tech generally have a reputation for being introverted. Another particular issue that frequently comes up is what she calls "tech overload": people spend so much time on their gadgets that they "forget about being in the moment." Although there's no official data on Silicon Valley's sex frequency, a 2012 survey by condom maker Trojan revealed that Bay Area residents had the least amount of sex and the shortest time in bed, in a sample of 10 major US cities including New York, Chicago, Miami, and so on.
Some of the common issues include low sexual desire, difficulty meeting women, and performance issues. Plus, she points out people in tech generally have a reputation for being introverted. Another particular issue that frequently comes up is what she calls "tech overload": people spend so much time on their gadgets that they "forget about being in the moment." Although there's no official data on Silicon Valley's sex frequency, a 2012 survey by condom maker Trojan revealed that Bay Area residents had the least amount of sex and the shortest time in bed, in a sample of 10 major US cities including New York, Chicago, Miami, and so on.
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
You can take the nerd out of his mother's basement, but you can't take the basement out of the nerd.
Silicon Valley Icons (Score:3)
At least now we have an explanation of why all of Apple's new graphics designs emphasize 'flat."
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So, I've missed the "get some boob" and "feel arse" versions of iPhone 1 through (is it 7, 8 or 9 today - I don't know.)?
Or is Thiel (a homophone for "feel," predictably) pumping for the iPhone 10 "ring-fingering" edition?
Re:Well... (Score:5, Funny)
but you can't take the basement out of the nerd
Ouch! Debasement in the basement! I like that.
Re:Well... (Score:4, Funny)
That's pretty low.
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You can take the nerd out of his mother's basement, but you can't take the basement out of the nerd.
I prefer to look at it this way: You can take the nerd out of his mom's basement, and Peter Thiel is still a know-nothing dumbass.
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What the hell does it mean that anyways, for these "conservatives" to tolerate silicon valley? Are flyover trailer-parks now full of Kings whose whims determine the goings-on of the coastal states, or the existence of various industries?
This story is kinda like a story on a drunken email from Linus, except without a clear point.
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Because that's common knowledge among those who are not AC trolls. We can also spell Thiel.
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It is easy to tell geeks to just get over themselves, normal-up, force themselves to be more extroverted, force themselves to like the things that women want them to like, etc.
A woman goes to her doctor and says "I'm a clinically depressed, agoraphobic, pathologically shy introvert" so he advises her to cheer up, and get out and meet more people.
problems (Score:3, Interesting)
Some of the common issues include low sexual desire, difficulty meeting women, and performance issues.
I can see why difficulty meeting potential sexual partners would be a problem if you have significant sexual desire, and likewise with performance issues. But why would a lack of sexual desire be a problem? It seems like it should make life easier. Let the rabbits get on with the procreating while you do whatever it is you are interested in.
Re:problems (Score:4, Insightful)
Society expectations and peer pressure. You don't want or care much about x but TV and pop culture says that everyone wants x more than anything else: that's going to make you feel like a freak. Then mix in workmates whose main topic of conversation is the quest for x and their made-up stories about how much of x they are getting and you start pretending you too want x to fit in. Recipe for unhappiness.
Re:problems (Score:5, Interesting)
The older I get, and the weaker the hormones are, the happier I am with life in general. Being a young male was hell and honestly getting sex wasn't the cure-all that Mr. Thiel thinks it is... you just get a brief break (the younger you are, the briefer it is) and want back in the saddle again.
I'm not really sure why we seem to worship this ideal, sex is a biological demand that kept us going, but definitely is responsible for more of the worlds troubles than any other single thing.
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. But why would a lack of sexual desire be a problem? It seems like it should make life easier. Let the rabbits get on with the procreating while you do whatever it is you are interested in.
A lot of people are concerned because the reproduction rate is falling. And it's falling especially among intelligent people.
I think that what has happened is that the male of the species has been marginalized to the point where many of the husband material guys - high earnings, non-violent, pleasant, civil disposition, and intelligent - have come to the conclusion that the much better than average chance that their wife will take them to the cleaners in a divorce, and make their lives miserable, that the
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I suspect it's also a problem for people who feel they need to conform with some "normal" standard of society, and that they're somehow "abnormal". As a guy who grew up mainly wanting to associate with girls and play with "girl" toys or do "girl" activities (including a pink lunchbox in 1st grade), I realized that I am who I am, and unless my behavior is morally wrong, I'm not
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But why would a lack of sexual desire be a problem? It seems like it should make life easier. Let the rabbits get on with the procreating while you do whatever it is you are interested in.
You haven't seen the movie Idiocracy have you? Or maybe you haven't heard the hit 90's alternative song Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger "I've been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding." You don't consider that type of future a problem?
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Some of the common issues include low sexual desire, difficulty meeting women, and performance issues.
I can see why difficulty meeting potential sexual partners would be a problem if you have significant sexual desire, and likewise with performance issues. But why would a lack of sexual desire be a problem? It seems like it should make life easier. Let the rabbits get on with the procreating while you do whatever it is you are interested in.
Overwork (read fatigue) leads to lowered libido in young adults (willing to bet old ones too). This is a common phenomena in modern Japan as not only work, but family pressures have made young people more and more insular. Often even if they have the drive, they just don't have the time with their work commitments.
Given that working in Silicon valley often means working long hours and even though the pay is good, the living costs are extreme. Its likely that the long hours are eliminating the drive and l
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Human contact is extremely important and its difficult to maintain a close and intimate relationship with someone without the reinforcement of sex, its kind of built into our brain chemistry. Now if both partners are of a low sex drive variety then maybe its workable, you find other ways to be intimate and close but if one partner wants sex and the other is un-interested it can create a much more serious issue. This is only made worse when compounded by the gender stereotype that men want sex all the time
So what (Score:4, Interesting)
The lack of women in SF ultimately does not matter. A boyfriend who spends all his time with startup colleagues is no boyfriend and husband who works so much is just a glorified back account anyway. What would those guys do even if women were there? Nothing, they would still close themselves into males only group (except maybe striptease or night bar visit).
However, the ratio might explain why some techies tend to became either completely radical feminists or total sexists. Having no contact with people who are not male techies or moms, they place wild imagination over reality and believe that the one women who talked with them last year is stand in for all women.
Re:So what (Score:4, Funny)
"The lack of women in SF ultimately does not matter."
My first really good relationship was a woman who wrote SF.
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"The lack of women in SF ultimately does not matter."
My first really good relationship was a woman who wrote SF.
Hopefully she didn't have SF!
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And no, you hyenas, it wasn't Mary Shelley.
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The lack of women in SF ultimately does not matter. A boyfriend who spends all his time with startup colleagues is no boyfriend and husband who works so much is just a glorified back account anyway
The Child Tax Credit that just got nerfed came into existence in the late 90's because of a concern that people weren't having as many children putting children off for careers. There is always time to make money but don't make any kids and that's it, the human race is finished. All for naught.
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Your point?
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It's like when I hear of the evil of guns, it's like none of you own or were ever near a gun.
Re: So what (Score:2, Interesting)
I own several, and let me tell you; the average guy I meet at the range or my private dealer are basically ammo-sexual. My dealer even went so far as to point out how I didn't seem that excited about my recent purchases.
Maybe it's because I take gun safety seriously and I don't laugh when people tell me stories about that one time the loaded gun their dad kept in the corner of their childhood home accidentally went off when it fell over "but nobody was hurt." Or every time I go to the range some gun tourist
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I own several, and let me tell you; the average guy I meet at the range or my private dealer are basically ammo-sexual. My dealer even went so far as to point out how I didn't seem that excited about my recent purchases.
Maybe it's because I take gun safety seriously ...
A million times THIS. Go watch youtube where someone's busy shooting up a lawn mower and loses his leg, or giving a tiny woman a rifle and watching the fun ensue when she either falls over or rams the scope into her eye. Or the people who have a stack of guns in every room, including the children's plastic toy guns, and little sis gutshoots her brother and kills him and they claim it's a second amendment issue.
These are the people who stand between us and tyranny? Heaven help us when Jackass for rifle ro
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The ammosexuals don't even seem to understand that there can be any other positions except their own and some liberal in a safe room completely anti-gun.
And it doesn't help that the outspoken liberals agree with them on this point.
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The ammosexuals don't even seem to understand that there can be any other positions except their own and some liberal in a safe room completely anti-gun.
And it doesn't help that the outspoken liberals agree with them on this point.
You'll have to make yourself a lot more clear on that.
Re:So what (Score:4, Interesting)
If they make it so hard to bring up children and you can see their future as nothing more than burning on the greed driven pyres of the rich and greedy, why play the game.
Your attitude is not unique. Many men have chosen to drop out of that game. In a huge social experiment started in the 1980's woen were taught form a very young age that men are rapists, and pedophiles - all of them, and young males were taught that anything a woman thinks is sexual harassment - is by definition sexual harassment, and "you better not go raping women you rapist pedophile".
By and large, for many years, men just went along with it. But then a problem developed. Now that sitting with your legs too far apart makes you a symbol of rapist culture (man spreading) http://everydayfeminism.com/20... [everydayfeminism.com] it has become pretty clear that women by and large simply do not like men, and a majority of them hate men. From this article http://femmagazine.com/2015/03... [femmagazine.com] - “Manspreading” is essentially part of rape culture."
Let's face it - if the way you sit causes a female outrage, and she is validated if she thinks you are the equal of a person who would force sexual intercourse on her. She hates men badly.
So we had that problem. Most men have no intention of physically violating women, yet they have been part of the all men are evil cultural experiment. Given that most divorces are initiated by women, and the initiator almost always wins the lion's share of the proceedings, and most marriages end in divorce. A normal heterosexul guy might be forgiven if he just bags the whole thing. One thing is for certain - you end up with a lot more money in the bank.
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Heh, makes me think of the Wiccan O'Neill colony in Wizard [wikipedia.org].
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Mothers have been telling daughters that forever (apparently). Around the 1980s the press decided they could get a lot more people paying attention and get more lovely ad revenue if they hyped things up as an "epidemic of crime".
Idiots writing shit to sell magazines will write shit. Don't tell me you also thought those horoscopes in those magazine
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Mothers have been telling daughters that forever (apparently). Around the 1980s the press decided they could get a lot more people paying attention and get more lovely ad revenue if they hyped things up as an "epidemic of crime".
I don't disagree with you, but it isn't that simple. In my workplace - a University setting, in the early 80's, we had our first sexual harassment meetings. There was no press or advertisement involved. But it gave a sneak preview of the future.
We were told first and foremost that "anything a woman considers to be sexual harassment by definition - is sexual harassment. We were told that if we even complimented a woman on her appearance, we were skating on very thin ice, and could be "charged". It did not
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Ah - that explains it. I've worked in Universities as well, thankfully for engineering departments where at least the bullshit is different to that (with lots of laughing from afar at other departments bullshit) but I can see where you are coming from.
Good luck, but perhaps you should get out more and away from the influence of weird student politics. In general I do not think things are as bad as you suggest apart from isolated pockets.
I'd better add: I agree with you in that setting (Score:2)
It's not so bad elsewhere IMHO.
This one passed me by at the time (Score:2)
Weird - a law against that? How fucking uptight are some people?
I doubt very much that the average man or woman or the street would give a shit either way, I suspect it's just an idiot like the magazine writer you quoted getting more attention than they deserve from legislators who are looking for an issue that will get them positive press. Of course that's just an opinion.
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it has become pretty clear that women by and large simply do not like men, and a majority of them hate men.
This is simply not true. Women hate men who don't know what they're doing in the bedroom and then also have to put up with other shit. Hint: learn how to use your tongue in the right way and you'll find women like you A LOT.
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Do not confuse an idea I present with my attitude, you know not of my attitude, all you know is the idea I presented, in a style that socially aligns with that idea. I am just a little lazy, perhaps bit of a worrier, nothing more. No MGTOW nonsense from me and I find the Mosuo culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] interesting and a likely viable solution to the current chaos. I find hardly any logic what so ever in the current religious dogma controls of reproduction and mating which seem heavily tied t
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Do not confuse an idea I present with my attitude, you know not of my attitude, all you know is the idea I presented, in a style that socially aligns with that idea. I am just a little lazy, perhaps bit of a worrier, nothing more. No MGTOW nonsense from me and I find the Mosuo culture interesting and a likely viable solution to the current chaos.
"you know not of my attitude" Holy smokes, someone who writes like I do!
Anyhow, the MGTOW movement is mostly made up of butthurt and broke guys who lost the marriage game, some shy folks who channeled their neurosis into disdain, and some folks who are reacting to the excesses of third wave feminism.
They are the ones making almost all the noise. But there are a lot of males out there who are just leading their lives as single without being that noisy about it.
Thanks for the link to Mosuo culture.
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By and large, for many years, men just went along with it. But then a problem developed. Now that sitting with your legs too far apart makes you a symbol of rapist culture (man spreading) http://everydayfeminism.com/20 [everydayfeminism.com]... [everydayfeminism.com] it has become pretty clear that women by and large simply do not like men, and a majority of them hate men. From this article http://femmagazine.com/2015/03 [femmagazine.com]... [femmagazine.com] - “Manspreading” is essentially part of rape culture."
You are taking very fringe ideas here and saying that this is just what is considered mainstream. It's not, even in liberal circles.
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You are conflating a desire for sex and a desire for reproduction. Most men (and possibly most women - IANAWoman so that's just a guess) desire sex. Whether they want reproduction is a completely unrelated question. Didn't you get taught about contraception at school?
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'Mo Dieu, les incompetent', what fuck exactly do you think the desire for sex is all about, 'espÃce d'idiot'?!? (for the less subtle, French, the language of love).
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Some days I wake up
Is Bennett Haselton Back? (Score:5, Interesting)
conservative parts of America tolerate Silicon Valley "because people there just don't have that much sex. They're not having that much fun" /. since Bennett Haselton [slashdot.org] was an "editor".
which translates to
Peter Thiel Thinks There's Not Enough Sex In Silicon Valley
Total non-sequitar. That aside, this is the single dumbest article I've not read on
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I'm puzzled as to how "conservative parts of America" even know how much sex goes on in Silicon Valley.
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Shit, you said he name 3 times in your post!
Re: Is Bennett Haselton Back? (Score:2)
What, is that part of the ritual for summoning the Satan of Stupidity or something?
No time for sex? (Score:2)
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But if you can't find time for sex when it is on offer you are doing life wrong!
And where would that be?
Wait... (Score:5, Insightful)
'conservative parts of America tolerate Silicon Valley "because people there just don't have that much sex'
What? Why would anyone care about how much sex is going in Silicon Valley, and why would 'conservative parts of America' have anything to say about that, and why would Silicon Valley be in any way special in this regard? The mind just boggles trying to conjure up the reasoning that must be behind an expression like that.
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Why would anyone care about how much sex is going in Silicon Valley, and why would 'conservative parts of America' have anything to say about that, and why would Silicon Valley be in any way special in this regard?
This would be the same conservative parts of America that think there should be laws about who can have sex with whom, what a woman does with her body, etc.
Gee, why would they care about this topic...
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Ah yes, the places that yell to everyone about their "freedom".
Re:Wait... (Score:5, Funny)
Having lived in a conservative part of America before moving to Silicon Valley, I can not tell you how many times I would overhear at parties "well, I hate those liberal techy scum, but they don't have much sex, so I guess they can stay."
Re:Wait... (Score:5, Insightful)
What? Why would anyone care about how much sex is going in Silicon Valley
Indeed, why would religious people care about how much sex who has with whom anywhere? Yet they still do care for some reason.
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I think it's more accurate to say that people tend to be *obsessed* with sex.
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What he means is, his conservative friends tolerate the fact that he's gay because he is rich and doesn't talk to them about sex.
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Not only that, but just because the male to female ratio is high doesn't mean there isn't a lot of sex going on.. it is California, after all.
What a strange thing for Thiel to comment on or worry about.
Betas will beta? (Score:5, Interesting)
Overwork, constantly subverting the durinal impulse, stress chemicals cranked to the max, overlaid with caffeine and god knows what other stimulants, PHB's and TPS reports sapping your autonomy, random production death marches, and constant reminders that you have no authority: this will absolutely destroy the testosterone production of any male, much less ones dedicated to a sedentary workstyle.
Humans are built for physical work for 8-10 hours a day and plenty of social interaction. These people are about as far removed from the natural harmonious state of human interaction with people, their world, and their environment as you can find this side of a solitary confinement wing. No surprise they aren't copulating. It's like their genes are saying, "Why bring children into this environment? It sucks ass."
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in fact one issue we have had over the past couple decades, and perhaps even for out entire history, is that drugs are overused to promote the sex drive, even when there is no natural desire. The stages of ad
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Overwork, constantly subverting the durinal impulse,"
You have two urinals?
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No, that's Diurinal, durinal impulses are from the durian gland.
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No, that's Diurinal, durinal impulses are from the durian gland.
Which is durable as it turns out.
"introverted" "tech" (Score:5, Interesting)
You know how I know you're lying?
Your allegedly "introverted" "tech" workers are hypersocial self-aggrandizing narcissistic bloggers.
Introverts don't advertise. Introverts don't brag. Introverts don't blog. Introverts don't get jobs in silicon valley. Not anymore. There aren't any introverts left in "tech" because tech has been completely displaced by social media marketing.
Don't bullshit me bro.
No shit (Score:2)
I'm glad this person has an advanced degree to state the obvious. Pick any location and guaranteed you will see someone taking a selfie or quickly pulling up their phone to take a picture then just as quickly moving on, not bothering to enjoy being at that place at that time.
Then again, these people are the ones who brag about working 16 - 18 hour days, seven days a week, always on call because of the money t
thoughts: (Score:5, Interesting)
1. In general, men want to have sex more frequently than women and are more willing to engage in non-committed sex. Ignoring homosexual males, since they're a fairly small piece of the picture even in the Bay Area, the amount of sex is going to be strongly tied to the # of women.
2. More men than women makes it a "woman's market", so to speak, so women can afford to be more choosy and less promiscuous. In situations where women outnumber men, women are generally less choosy and more promiscuous, leading to more sex.
Lest I be accused of being a red-pill patriarchal Trump guy, let me assure you I'm not.
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High male-to-female limits sex-per-capita in a couple different ways:
It seems to me that we could do a couple of interesting studies along those lines:
1. Does per-woman* sex/month correlate with male/female** ratio in dating pool?
2. Does per-woman sex/month correlate with average female education level (or some other proxy for intelligence)?
3. Does per-woman sex/month correlate with female income level? with male income level?
*Obviously, per-man sex/month will decrease if there are more males than females.
**We might be able to formulate some non-hetero questions, too.
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That's because feminism teaches 'body acceptance,' the wisdom that a woman's weight isn't what defines her as a person, and if you reject her for being overweight, you are a shallow pig.
However, if you are a short, bald man who isn't rich, that's a character flaw and she is entirely justified in rejecting you.
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What I said is that in the Bay Area, where men outnumber women, it's a "woman's market" and they can afford to be more choosy and less promiscuous. That seems to match up with this guy's c
Prostitutes (Score:2, Interesting)
Really! The usual meme is young females are having more sex because they don't have to be a 'good girl' in these modern times. It's probably the same old problem; the women fuck the attractive men and the rest get nothing. So it's time for the usual answer; prostitutes.
About 16 years ago, during the dot-com boom, the press in my country went ballistic when they discovered that IT businesses had corporate accounts at local brothels. They never articulated why a corporate perk was wrong (and failed to men
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If it's using a lot of someone elses money for something personal it's generally wrong whether it's sex or not.
It looks especially bad when companies go bust and people out of work or owed money learn about such perks.
Work culture and environment is likely the reason (Score:5, Interesting)
I work a fairly normal job doing systems architecture stuff for an IT service provider. I have a spouse and 2 kids, and some semblance of a life outside of IT/dev. I seriously doubt I'd have the family and normal life part working for some of the crazy SV employers. I think the key reasons are crazy work environment and cost of living:
I've never worked for a startup or a tech company notorious for crazy culture, but I have plenty of acquaintances who do. I say "acquaintances" because they're never around to talk to -- they're always working. I love my job; it's great getting paid to solve complex problems. But I don't love it so much that I work 90 or 100 hour weeks constantly. Even established companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon are famously "all inclusive" -- 3 meals a day at work, bus service to and from work and an implicit expectation that you belong to them. Startups are even stranger with the founder-driven work or die culture. Having a relationship is incompatible with this. In a startup, I've heard you barely see anybody outside the company...that limits the pool to other workaholics trying to win the buyout lottery...and they don't have time for each other either.
The second thing is cost of living. I live in New York, and I think the cost of living here is crazy. California and SV take it to a whole new level. Either you perpetually rent a tiny apartment with roommates, or you go into permanent indentured servitude to buy a $1.5M house that costs $300K elsewhere. Who has the money available to go out and play the field in a situation like that?
Another poster mentioned something about basement-dwelling nerds, but don't forget that that's mostly not SV anymore. Most of SV is these hyper-social startup companies where the stereotype "brogrammer" was born. I'm sure there are still plenty of nerds, but most of them are migrating to places like cloud providers or established software vendors.
Re:Work culture and environment is likely the reas (Score:5, Interesting)
I lived in Si Valley a while ago. I found that it was difficult to even *see* anyone come out of their homes. It's get up, hit the garage door opener, go to work, go home and hit the garage door opener again and repeat.
There is not much "community" there. No one sitting outdoors, having BBQs, going for walks.
It's fuggin' intense and not much fun.
My solution was to get the hell out of the valley. I transferred to a new location with my same company and had a blast. Back were the pool parties, the BBQs, going skiing, biking, boating.
I'll never be back.
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My solution was to get the hell out of the valley. I transferred to a new location with my same company and had a blast
From my consulting days, I remember a lot of companies being delighted to pay 80% of a Bay Area salary to me when my cost of living was around 10% of the Bay Area. They paid less, I put vastly more into savings than if I'd been living in SF. I still don't really understand the attraction of living out there (it's fun to visit - I'm actually in the Bay Area this week - but a week or two a year is enough).
So, he is not getting any (Score:2)
Not much fun? (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps he's holding it wrong.
Jared, however (Score:2)
fucks!
Oblig Joke (Score:5, Funny)
A s/w developer was walking along a path when a frog said, "Ribbit. Kiss me and I'll turn into a beautiful princess." The devel picks up the frog and puts it in his pocket. A few minutes later, the frog say, "Ribbit. I'll turn into a beautiful princess and do anything you want" The devel just walks along. After a while, the frog says, "Ribbit. What's wrong with you? Don't you want a girlfriend?" The devel takes the frog out and tells it, "I'm a software developer. I don't have time for a relationship. But a talking frog .... that's cool!"
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A software developer cycles in to work on a shiny new bike, and his coworker asks where he got it.
"Funny thing, as I was walking in to work this beautiful woman cycled up to me took of all her clothes and said 'take whatever you want'"
"Good choice!" said the coworker, "the clothes probably wouldn't have fit".
Where would they have sex anyway? (Score:2)
Even if two people met in SF and were down for sex, where would they go? With so many people living 20 to a bedroom it doesn't seem like there are many physical places to have sex... I guess that's where having sex in Uber's started? It'll be a real boon when when you can just order a self driving car up and tell it to circle the city for an hour or two.
I'm sure something could be done (Score:2)
Backpage's censored adult section... (Score:2)
as Zoidberg said... (Score:2)
Are you coming on to me? [youtube.com]
Peter Thiel... (Score:2)
... increasingly seems to be going off the deep end.
If I was involved with companies he was backing, I would be worried, quite frankly.
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There are a few factors that play into this ... (Score:2)
First of all, I would tend to agree with Thiels general premise that there isn't enough sex/eros/sensuality in the tech-camp, even with so-called "high-functioning" nerds and successful techies. But I wouldn't see this as a tech problem rather than a problem of modern society in general, creeping up on all of us, not just the nerds. It's only us getting there quicker.
I see a lot of factors playing into this. The modern day phenomenon that Houellebecq describes as the "Extension of the Combat Zone" [wikipedia.org] would be
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As if I care what that asshat thinks. Some "opinions" do not need consideration.
Pot, meet kettle.
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you are right it doesn't see: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u... [huffingtonpost.co.uk]
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For the complete set of stats re which barbaric and medieval Islamic laws are still practiced today and where, see this link [wikiislam.net]. Hopefully you are open to being educated and are not just a woefully ignorant bigot.
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I am.
But you're apparently not familiar with basic Christian theology. See, the Old Testament is only part of the Christian bible as it provides the prologue on what is a millennials-long story arc. Mosaic Law (which over-wrote the Code of Hammurabi etc.) is itself over-written by Christ's "Mosaic Anti-theses:" "Love your neighbor as yourself," "Do unto others..." "Let he without sin cast the first stone," etc. No Christian sect (again, outside the 40 people in the Westboro Baptist Church) follow OT writin
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Too cerebral. You need to think like Trump's nicknames to get it to stick - "Nasty Peter Thiel."
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"Just after I moved here sixteen years ago, a local paper published a story about a study that said Seattle was the most asexual large city in the world."
Seattle should have more sex, because you can't get Internet porn.
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Single girls here just don't leave their houses at night.
Night. There's your problem. Work flexible hours or telecommute. Hit the gym during the day. The best sex is a nooner.
Old people go out or have sex at night. It's a habit they pick up from having kids and then never break.
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most tech people don't look their best in daylight
Hence my advice to hit the gym.
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And you think that this is something of which to be proud? In '93, I started with $73,000 per year in South Carolina, as the 'computer guy' for a medium sized manufacturer (My card said IT Director, but it was years before that became more than a joke between me and the owner).
This was enough to rent an actual house on Lake Wylie, eat out 100% of the time, and in the best restaurants on the weekend, and have enough to build a house on a better lot, again on Lake Wylie. And yes, I had enough time for sex,
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Sounds like a typical IoT startup to me!
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Observation: All women behave in an obnoxious manner towards you.
Hypothesis 1: The common factor in the interactions and cause of this behaviour is you.
Hypothesis 2: All women are misandrists.
I'd put money on hypothesis 1.