I never made any remarks about this group not wanting to dirty its hands and this group looking down on other people.

OK, those remarks were made by others upthread. Although it’s fair to say that your remarks about privilege imply people looking down on others.

This is not an attack on programmers. I’m a programmer for Pete’s sake.

So did you ever create anything? That was your original question.

Creative. But what did they create?

I’ll assume the answer is Yes. You did create things. I know I do. Every day.

But your question implies that the so-called creative class mentioned in the article are not creative and don’t create things. And that’s ridiculous.

So what distinguishes them from others?

The idea is that they/we are knowledge workers. It’s not a hard concept.

The point of the article is not that these people are somehow walking around with their noses in the air saying that they’re better than others, as a number of people upthread seem to have said. The point is that Obama was supported by those people. And Obama has won. And those people will now have their day in the sun.

Like it or lump it.