Arrogance of the Geeks: Tech Workers From DropBox Try Take a Playground From Community Kids — They Lose (Video)

Neighborhood park user tries to explain to the newcomer geeks that having money
doesn't mean they own the world. (Screen capture from YouTube video)

By Peter Z. Scheer
When a group of tech workers from Dropbox tried to evict a group of youngsters from a community soccer field in San Francisco’s Mission district, they probably weren’t expecting to trigger a mini Occupy movement.

The Dropboxers, who have since apologized for the incident, reserved the field using a new permitting system.

"If you want to play pickup, you play pickup like the rest of us.
Just because you got money... It ain't your fucking field!"

The locals, who have for years shared the field using a different set of rules, resisted, refusing to leave the pitch. Eventually, they offered to share the field and that seems to be what ultimately happened, but not before a lot of whining from the mostly white, presumably well-paid, tech workers.

There’s a lot of tension in the Bay Area between tech companies and longtime residents. Rents and eviction rates are skyrocketing as upwardly mobile professionals compete for housing with the general population.

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