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BART Workers Plan To Strike Friday

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Re: BART Workers Plan To Strike Friday

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I think this is the perfect counterpoint to all the articles over the last week about letting the government fail as long as tech keeps making money.

We only make money because a huge infrastructure of transport and a mass of non-sexy industry is there to support us. The tech industry is as the artists of old. We are a small number at the tip-top of a pyramid. Remove anything below us and we topple.

Re: BART Workers Plan To Strike Friday

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post #2

I think this is the perfect counterpoint to all the articles over the last week about letting the government fail as long as tech keeps making money. We only make money because a huge infrastructure of transport and a mass of non-sexy industry is there to support us. The tech industry is as the artists of old. We are a small number at the tip-top of a pyramid. Remove anything below us and we topple.

That, or we buy a car to commute.

Re: BART Workers Plan To Strike Friday

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post #2

I think this is the perfect counterpoint to all the articles over the last week about letting the government fail as long as tech keeps making money. We only make money because a huge infrastructure of transport and a mass of non-sexy industry is there to support us. The tech industry is as the artists of old. We are a small number at the tip-top of a pyramid. Remove anything below us and we topple.

That, or we buy a car to commute.

Or tech provides its own commute infrastructure a la GBus.

Re: BART Workers Plan To Strike Friday

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post #2

I think this is the perfect counterpoint to all the articles over the last week about letting the government fail as long as tech keeps making money. We only make money because a huge infrastructure of transport and a mass of non-sexy industry is there to support us. The tech industry is as the artists of old. We are a small number at the tip-top of a pyramid. Remove anything below us and we topple.

That, or we buy a car to commute.

And sit in some horrendous bumper-to-bumper traffic.

Re: BART Workers Plan To Strike Friday

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or tech provides its own commute infrastructure a la GBus.

On roads and bridges paid for by the government.

I cannot believe that any strain of "no government!!" libertarianism still lingers on in any outlet that supposedly is a place for smart people. I mean, come on, it's basic math people, it's not that hard to figure out. And anyway, it's been completely decimated by the likes of John Rawls in the academia. I'm befuddled to see that we still keep running into this though.

Re: BART Workers Plan To Strike Friday

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post #2

I think this is the perfect counterpoint to all the articles over the last week about letting the government fail as long as tech keeps making money. We only make money because a huge infrastructure of transport and a mass of non-sexy industry is there to support us. The tech industry is as the artists of old. We are a small number at the tip-top of a pyramid. Remove anything below us and we topple.

That, or we buy a car to commute.

Good luck getting through the bay area when everyone is driving

Re: BART Workers Plan To Strike Friday

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post #2

I think this is the perfect counterpoint to all the articles over the last week about letting the government fail as long as tech keeps making money. We only make money because a huge infrastructure of transport and a mass of non-sexy industry is there to support us. The tech industry is as the artists of old. We are a small number at the tip-top of a pyramid. Remove anything below us and we topple.

That, or we buy a car to commute.

And make the tragedy of the commons that much more tragic.
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