Don't let Google take over Berlin
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Don't let Google take over Berlin
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Re: Don't let Google take over Berlin
#2recent discussion of a guardian article covering this (175 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17027834
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#3> Instead of a nice friendly “campus” we see a Google farm for harvesting Kreuzberg’s brains and talents, or a Google mine in which ideas and data will be extracted out of Berlin
It's simply not a zero sum game. Google will bring culture and resources with it that could enhance Berlin.
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#4That's a nice Material Design on that page that's saying Google is Evil!
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#5I'm sure you can make an argument against gentrification without making it look like some anarchist bs
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#7The rents in Kreuzberg already increased a lot this past decade: https://guthmann-estate.com/marketreport/micro-market-report...
Gentrification is a problem, but long time renters in Germany are really having it good. An example of how does the system works here: I pay twice as much as some German friends living in my district because my parents didn't sign me up in a union 20 years ago. I'm OK with that, it's the game, but refusing new buildings/companies to keep the rents low is BS.
Kreuzberg is very well located, Berlin is huge, time to accept that 1989 was a long time ago.
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#8> Instead of a nice friendly “campus” we see a Google farm for harvesting Kreuzberg’s brains and talents, or a Google mine in which ideas and data will be extracted out of Berlin It's simply not a zero sum game. Google will bring culture and resources with it that could enhance Berlin.
That’s up to the people of Berlin to decide, not a faceless American tech company.
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#9> Instead of a nice friendly “campus” we see a Google farm for harvesting Kreuzberg’s brains and talents, or a Google mine in which ideas and data will be extracted out of Berlin It's simply not a zero sum game. Google will bring culture and resources with it that could enhance Berlin.
What culture could Google bring to Berlin?
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