In a feature story from the October issue of San Francisco magazine, Farhad Manjoo—the Wall Street Journal’s new tech columnist—offers a forcefully optimistic vision of how the tech industry’s growth “can benefit us all.”

A rising wind raises all rideshare helicopters—or so the pixel Pollyannas of the Valley would have you think, all progress and prosperity. And the fact that they're raking in more money than when gold was actually falling out of the ground. But if we're in boom times, what's up with all this bummer poverty?