Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe they could start building apartments which would be open for rent for public as well?
Where you unlock the doors by signing in with your G+ account?
Scary because that would so be the case.
Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent
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#82Yes, highly paid employees do deliberately go homeless in the Bay Area. This isn't unique to Google. If you own the right vehicle, sleep in it.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were ordinances in place to discourage/prohibit that though.
It seems like every Wal-Mart has a sign now for this. I imagine their big empty parking lots might have received decent use a few years back.
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#83Can't Google just setup dormitories? It's halfway on being it's own city, so why not go all out and have cheap living quarters?
No; though they desperately want to, Mountain View strictly regulates how much housing can be built, and where.
Why? Because only the people who already live there get to vote for local representatives, so everything's biased toward what's best for established homeowners -- not struggling would-be homeowners.
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#84yahoo post about google... thats what the guy that was quoted has to say about this rubbish article: https://plus.google.com/+BenDiscoe/posts
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#85Does anyone else feels like we're really getting towards the cyberpunk universe ? with corporations that completely own the life of their employees by providing them with everything, and a violent lawless and miserable outside world. And as always, it all started with the best intentions.
Indentured slavery has a long history. The cyberpunk take on it just subverts the concept, where it becomes control of the mind instead of the body.
Re: Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent
#86I did this on a 6 month contract as an experiment over a mild winter in the UK in 2011. You can pretty much do this anywhere. Couple of tricks: 1) Get a small camper/van that can park in one car parking space with a diesel heating system. Kitchen is irrelevant. Bed/toilet/heating system/space to sit and type/space for clothes to hang. 2) You need a toilet but usually you time your bowel movements to only need to use…
So you only did this as an experiment? If it was a forced thing, do you think it would be any different? Also, this could be amazing to go camping or short vacations with friends. Thanks!
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#87Thats rather sad imho
Re: Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent
#88Does anyone else feels like we're really getting towards the cyberpunk universe ? with corporations that completely own the life of their employees by providing them with everything, and a violent lawless and miserable outside world. And as always, it all started with the best intentions.
>Does anyone else feels like we're really getting towards the cyberpunk universe
No. The current top voted comment in this thread is a guy who's telling everyone how to live out of a van. Hint: it's so safe outside the corporate safe zones that he can park his car in a parking lot and sleep there without worrying about being hassled by anyone.
Re: Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent
#89Does anyone else feels like we're really getting towards the cyberpunk universe ? with corporations that completely own the life of their employees by providing them with everything, and a violent lawless and miserable outside world. And as always, it all started with the best intentions.
>Does anyone else feels like we're really getting towards the cyberpunk universe
No. The current top voted comment in this thread is a guy who's telling everyone how to live out of a van. Hint: it's so safe outside the corporate safe zones that he can park his car in a parking lot and sleep there without worrying about being hassled by anyone.
Re: Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent
#90I did this on a 6 month contract as an experiment over a mild winter in the UK in 2011. You can pretty much do this anywhere. Couple of tricks: 1) Get a small camper/van that can park in one car parking space with a diesel heating system. Kitchen is irrelevant. Bed/toilet/heating system/space to sit and type/space for clothes to hang. 2) You need a toilet but usually you time your bowel movements to only need to use…
I love that social groups are critical and so it seems that swimming and saunas, but when taking a piss, or having a kitchen are ``irrelevant'' topics.