Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies

Post by WalterBright » Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 9:32 AM UTC

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To be fair, it's not quite 'economy 101'. Or rather, 'economy 101' is that anyone with enough leverage, will use monopoly powers in one area, to take control of an adjacent economy. American Oil empires were not built on some new amazing way to get at oil, it was because some had control of the railroads, and charged their competitors a little more to transport therefore putting them out of business (through aggressi…

As it turns out, poverty doesn't cause crime. It's relative poverty that causes crime. Basically, if people are low down enough on the dominance hierarchy, they feel like they have no hope of getting anywhere, then why shouldn't they start acting up? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3XYHPAwBzE (On the other hand, in societies where everyone is poor, there can be peace.)

Post by SmellyGeekBoy » Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 9:44 AM UTC

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While I was a BART commuter, I walked a gauntlet of slumped-over hard drug users, sprawled-out homeless people, human urine, and feces every day. Fortunately, I've only seen people drop their pants and take a shit on the sidewalk in front of me twice. Missed a random stabbing on the stairwell into my station by about 5 minutes. This is Civic Center Station, which serves Twitter, Uber, and Square. No amount of tech wo…

Perhaps move out of the third world city you live in and move to a developed one? Only problem I've encountered on public transport on 5 continents is the occasional drunk group singing on Friday night.

Post by falsedan » Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 9:59 AM UTC

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> Cool, so start-ups lose a potential hiring perk to the incumbents. I don't think catering startups that coordinate with local restaurants (e.g ZeroCater and Chewse) will be affected.

The goal is to keep the employees in the building.

Post by dantheman » Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 10:05 AM UTC

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On a good day, I work about 5 hours a day. That's non stop, from about 10.30 until about 4pm, or from about 3pm to 8pm. If I stop for lunch, I stop, and don't get back into it. So I eat lunch at my desk. It's not bad for me. 10 hour days to accomplish half the work is bad.

You can split the work and do the rest next day, there is no rush, really.

Post by sAbakumoff » Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 10:32 AM UTC

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>Cool, so start-ups lose a potential hiring perk to the incumbents. They could just do something similar to what colleges do: - increase salaries just a bit - but the increased salary goes to a food card - employees can't easily turn this into cash - you swipe it and "pay" - the company is essentially paying for the employee's food Money changes hands, but no one is at a net loss than what a free food perk would cost…

The benefit of a company cafeteria is mostly that you don't lose half an hour walking to a restaurant, waiting in line, ordering etc. It's not about the money.