This is a opinion summary of the New Yorker's article "Silicon Valley has an empathy vacuum"

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The tech industry, especially in Silicon Valley is very competitive and alienated of the rest of the world. Fortunately this 
cult for figures/business and hostile environment doesn't happen everywhere in the sector. For example, in the local scenes 
tech communities are extremely supportive, welcoming, inclusive and considerate. On the other hand, technology definitely has 
big effects in society and is modeling it such as people trusting what's published on social media, businesses like Uber, 
Airbnb or Amazon threatening the existance of local businesses or self-driven trucks taking jobs from people. Because as the 
article mentions, when people become numbers and reality data, you can't expect humain behaviors plus in general companies'goals 
(especially big ones) are always profit and growth. For this reason, it's important that staff working at them, developers in
general and users demand that people should always go first and denounce any different behavior/strategy that can harm them.
Everybody should do a wise use of technology, consume responsively and think of not only the benefits of new technology but
also the consequences of it to make smarter decisions.