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Silicon Valley’s Vast Wealth Disparity Deepens as Poverty Increased

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Re: Silicon Valley’s Vast Wealth Disparity Deepens as Poverty Increased

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Post by freeone3000 »

dpatru wrote: post #2

This is like complaining of unequal vehicles at an airport: A relatively few can fly very fast and hold hundreds of passengers, but most are earthbound-bound and can carry only a few passengers. Of course Silicon Valley has inequality: it’s home to some of the most impactful people on earth. Hobbling these people will do nothing to help the poor, just like crippling airliners will not improve the cars in airports par…

Getting rid of homeless people will do nothing to techbros other than give them a fewer thing to complain about.

Re: Silicon Valley’s Vast Wealth Disparity Deepens as Poverty Increased

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Post by nostrademons »

favflam wrote: post #13

I visited San Jose Diridon station. It was surrounded by parking lots. It was amazing to me that a train station with connections south and north to both San Francisco and Oakland is a desolate wasteland of parking lots devoid of people. If this happened in another country, the city planners would be voted out of office or disappeared. That place should be full of 5-10 story buildings bustling with offices, shopping,…

It will be soon:

https://realestate.withgoogle.com/sanjose/

Re: Silicon Valley’s Vast Wealth Disparity Deepens as Poverty Increased

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Post by refurb »

P_I_Staker wrote: post #19
dpatru wrote: post #2

This is like complaining of unequal vehicles at an airport: A relatively few can fly very fast and hold hundreds of passengers, but most are earthbound-bound and can carry only a few passengers. Of course Silicon Valley has inequality: it’s home to some of the most impactful people on earth. Hobbling these people will do nothing to help the poor, just like crippling airliners will not improve the cars in airports par…

This is one of the most disgusting things I've read in a long, long time. > it’s home to some of the most impactful people on earth. It's home to some of the most entitled jerkoffs on earth. This website needs to call out this rhetoric, because it's riddled with self-congratulatory garbage. Go ahead and flag me or downvote my comment, but I really can't believe what I'm reading here sometimes.

I dont know. Im pretty well off thanks to these “jerkoffs” not only in terms of access to technology but also lucrative employment.

Re: Silicon Valley’s Vast Wealth Disparity Deepens as Poverty Increased

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Post by refurb »

otikik wrote: post #15
dpatru wrote: post #2

This is like complaining of unequal vehicles at an airport: A relatively few can fly very fast and hold hundreds of passengers, but most are earthbound-bound and can carry only a few passengers. Of course Silicon Valley has inequality: it’s home to some of the most impactful people on earth. Hobbling these people will do nothing to help the poor, just like crippling airliners will not improve the cars in airports par…

I have seen poverty in a lot of places, and huge contrasts of wealth, but never the disparity I saw in SF. I’m talking about a Lamborghini parked next to a person lying on the floor, with no shoes, marred in their own excrements. It is crazy. > Hobbling these people will do nothing to help the poor There’s no one left to “hobble”.

Go to a developing country and its worse, way worse.

Not to say it isnt worth trying to fix.

Re: Silicon Valley’s Vast Wealth Disparity Deepens as Poverty Increased

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Post by reset8 »

monero-xmr wrote: post #20
P_I_Staker wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one of the most disgusting things I've read in a long, long time. > it’s home to some of the most impactful people on earth. It's home to some of the most entitled jerkoffs on earth. This website needs to call out this rhetoric, because it's riddled with self-congratulatory garbage. Go ahead and flag me or downvote my comment, but I really can't believe what I'm reading here sometimes.

You are on a website focused on tech startups. The people who succeed at tech startups become absurdly rich. I’m in agreement with the parent commenter that hobbling the superstars to give more to poor people is the wrong move. I’m disgusted that people disagree with me, but I also understand why most people remain poor.

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Re: Silicon Valley’s Vast Wealth Disparity Deepens as Poverty Increased

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Post by reset8 »

refurb wrote: post #23
P_I_Staker wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one of the most disgusting things I've read in a long, long time. > it’s home to some of the most impactful people on earth. It's home to some of the most entitled jerkoffs on earth. This website needs to call out this rhetoric, because it's riddled with self-congratulatory garbage. Go ahead and flag me or downvote my comment, but I really can't believe what I'm reading here sometimes.

I dont know. Im pretty well off thanks to these “jerkoffs” not only in terms of access to technology but also lucrative employment.

[flagged]

Re: Silicon Valley’s Vast Wealth Disparity Deepens as Poverty Increased

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Post by runnerup »

refurb wrote: post #24
otikik wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have seen poverty in a lot of places, and huge contrasts of wealth, but never the disparity I saw in SF. I’m talking about a Lamborghini parked next to a person lying on the floor, with no shoes, marred in their own excrements. It is crazy. > Hobbling these people will do nothing to help the poor There’s no one left to “hobble”.

Go to a developing country and its worse, way worse. Not to say it isnt worth trying to fix.

I have spent a lot of time in GCC countries (Saudi, Qatar, UAE, Oman). It’s worse there in the sense that more people are dirt poor, but SF is worse in terms of more people being rich.

What I mean is, in UAE/Saudi, the poor people are just as bad as the poor people in SF. But there are very, very few rich people. There’s also a lot of not dirt poor people (still poor).

SF had so many many rich people and there or there are just as bad as the poor elsewhere.

Re: Silicon Valley’s Vast Wealth Disparity Deepens as Poverty Increased

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Post by refurb »

runnerup wrote: post #27
refurb wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go to a developing country and its worse, way worse. Not to say it isnt worth trying to fix.

I have spent a lot of time in GCC countries (Saudi, Qatar, UAE, Oman). It’s worse there in the sense that more people are dirt poor, but SF is worse in terms of more people being rich. What I mean is, in UAE/Saudi, the poor people are just as bad as the poor people in SF. But there are very, very few rich people. There’s also a lot of not dirt poor people (still poor). SF had so many many rich people and there or the…

Come to Asia. You'll see people far richer than those in Silicon Valley next to people who parasites and diseases the Western world eliminated 100 years ago.

Re: Silicon Valley’s Vast Wealth Disparity Deepens as Poverty Increased

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Post by mstipetic »

monero-xmr wrote: post #20
P_I_Staker wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one of the most disgusting things I've read in a long, long time. > it’s home to some of the most impactful people on earth. It's home to some of the most entitled jerkoffs on earth. This website needs to call out this rhetoric, because it's riddled with self-congratulatory garbage. Go ahead and flag me or downvote my comment, but I really can't believe what I'm reading here sometimes.

You are on a website focused on tech startups. The people who succeed at tech startups become absurdly rich. I’m in agreement with the parent commenter that hobbling the superstars to give more to poor people is the wrong move. I’m disgusted that people disagree with me, but I also understand why most people remain poor.

If only they had invested early into scam internet tokens like you did, they wouldn’t have these problems

Re: Silicon Valley’s Vast Wealth Disparity Deepens as Poverty Increased

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Post by dehrmann »

favflam wrote: post #13

I visited San Jose Diridon station. It was surrounded by parking lots. It was amazing to me that a train station with connections south and north to both San Francisco and Oakland is a desolate wasteland of parking lots devoid of people. If this happened in another country, the city planners would be voted out of office or disappeared. That place should be full of 5-10 story buildings bustling with offices, shopping,…

This is probably just because more people are working remotely than 3 years ago. Those lots would have been full in 2019.
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