Silicon Valley’s Vast Wealth Disparity Deepens as Poverty Increased • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by dang » Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 9:03 PM UTC

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…

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

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Post by dang » Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 9:05 PM UTC

kerpotgh wrote: post #38

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.

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

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Post by favflam » Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 5:26 AM UTC

dehrmann wrote: post #45

marssaxman wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue is not that the parking lots are empty, but that the rail station is surrounded by parking lots at all. This is a terrible waste of transit infrastructure! Rail stations should be located in densely developed areas close to destinations. If you put a station in a low-density area, that creates an opportunity to build a new efficient urban center. (In some countries, the land-value increment created through…

San Jose has so much sprawl that for commuter rail, you really want that parking.

I respectfully disagree.

Trains and real estate go hand in hand. Without real estate, trains lose money. Without trains, real estate is worthless (hence parking lots, which are low value).

Trains and car owners don't mix. Trains + dense real estate usage displaces car owners and low-density real estate usage.

Cities should make car owners bicycles or ride the bus to the train station (ie remove parking lots) or cities should just not bother with trains.