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The term '''tech geek''' refers to high wage-earning employees typically of large technology [[corporations]] like [[Google]] and [[Apple Inc.|Apple]], but it can also refer to tech workers at [[start-ups]].
Tech geek is often used in the pejorative to suggest:
* elitism
* selfishness
* being out of touch
* disingenuousness
* lacking compassion for other human beings.
==Media coverage==
Attitudes of tech geeks have become a subject of public debate, which typically tech geeks themselves wish to prevent or discourage. Obnoxious narcissistic exhibitionism by tech geeks, especially the founders of start-ups have been prominent in the media.
==Influence of gaming culture==
It has been theorized that gaming culture has led to newfound outbreaks of [[narcissistic personality disorder]] (NPD) among people who strongly associate with technology such as tech geeks. However not all tech geeks are gamers.
==Influence of dot com bubble==
Many in the high tech industry agree that before the [[dot com bubble]], technology professionals were largely harmless docile men, and that the bubble pulled in many with more abrasive personalities as well as crass people for whom "greed is good".
==External links==
* [http://chris.pirillo.com/tech-elitism-sucks/ Tech elitism súcks]
* [http://www.kevware.com/geek/?p=305 A Brief Encounter With Poverty In San Francisco]
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