It’s more like, those people live completely separate lives from us and feel uncomfortable when they’re required to mingle with us.
Think about it, what do they have in common with us, culturally? Nothing. Many think our culture is disgusting and must be replaced. Others have zero experience outside their carefully curated lives, which started when their parents began their c.v. at age 3. To them, we seem unknowable and unthinkable, they have no more sympathy for us than they think we have for animals in the zoo. They believe they are superior to both elites of the past and the contemporary common folk, at the same time. We are The Other to them, and why the hell would they want to live among us or have any interaction with us whatsoever?
This is what it’s like when our lives collide. “I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because I thought my coworker was kidding when he said he was spending the three-day weekend in Greece. When I finished laughing, four people recommended hotels.”
Specifically with all the silicon valley tech workers, they seem to just want to do whatever they can to get away from the homelessness.
I would love to get rid of the homeless. I don’t like seeing them on the streets shooting up, yelling at people walking by. They are rude, aggressive and scary. They don’t bath and stink up everything. I want them in homes, getting fucked up yelling at people off their balconies instead while they wait for their bath to reach a boil in high quality housing paid by seizing the monopolists money.
This is some fucked up anti-homeless propaganda. You sound like one of those sociopaths on nextdoor, even if you end it with a call to action that would help them. The damage you do by reinforcing the image of the dangerous, drug-addicted homeless person far outweighs the good part imo.
I’m also spending my three day weekends in Greece though. Although unfortunately that is where I’m spending every other day as well.
Feel like trading places? Reality has been disappointing ever since I got back from Greece.
This is going to be dogshit and ruin an already pretty feeble downtown and displace probably hundreds of homeless people
they’re accidentally creating the perfect conditions for tech union organizing
Tech workers don’t view themselves as workers. They kind of aren’t, they’re more like petit-boug. Seriously, you need to get more familiar with how much money these people have and how they use it if you think they’re just good old working class people (“financial independence” and “passive income” are two of their favorite topics, and they can actually achieve them, HINT HINT!)
The people in tech to organize are the people doing the grunt work like human moderation, the cleaning and maintenance staff, etc. The techbros are not reachable. The best case scenario is that you get shit that’s purely performative. Great Article
you need to get more familiar with how much money these people have
Not just how much money but how easy they have it. You don’t stay unemployed when you’re in tech, for example - you put up a CV online and recruiters call you pretty much the same day.
They call you pretty much every day while you’re employed!
Anybody who has sympathy for people who, as a class:
make well into the six figures starting at age 22, have excellent benefits and extremely lax work policies around vacation time and hours, and have an incredibly high amount of direction over the work they do
is wasting time or being duped.
You code sixteen apps and what do you get?
“The project creates the future of San Jose that I want to live in,” San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said at a Tuesday City Council meeting, especially after overcoming “tremendous mistrust of government and suspicion of big tech.”
I wonder what convinced him to overcome his mistrust and suspicion.
