SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’
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Re: SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’
#2How can he live in SF for years and think it's a free market? I live across the country and even I know that the housing market there is artificially constrained.
He really seems to think that homeless people grow on trees or something instead of realizing that they lived in the city before he did.
Re: SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’
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Re: SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’
#4I wonder if this was s stunt to get attention on his company? This seems so cartoonish, I mean you could picture wealthy people thinking this way but to me it almost seems too insensitive.
Maybe a publicity stunt that backfired a little.
On the other hand maybe he is so sheltered as to think this is an actual problem he's helping solve...
Re: SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’
#5I'm just struck by the total lack of compassion towards your fellow humans. Levinas used to say that ethics was recognizing the obligation that we have towards people that are suffering - I just wonder how someone who is not a sociopath can see a suffering person on the street and feel slighted because their view was ruined.
Re: SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’
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It qualifies for a number of reasons:
-HN also covers stories about the human side of technology
-The story is happening in SF, which is very close to Silicon Valley
-The vitriol being spewed is coming from a member of a tech startup
It's quite appropriate on this forum.
Re: SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’
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To be a good Hacker, you must first be a good Human Being. We, as a hacker culture, don't want to encourage or harbor terrible behavior like this. But apparently that is what is happening.
You don't have to be SJW to think that tyranny is a bad solution to homelessness.
Re: SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’
#8How can he live in SF for years and think it's a free market? I live across the country and even I know that the housing market there is artificially constrained. He really seems to think that homeless people grow on trees or something instead of realizing that they lived in the city before he did.
I liked that he believed SF is a free market but also "Is that not the role of government to protect?"
Re: SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’
#9To play devil's advocate, he's right. He shouldn't have to see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless - the city government should be providing affordable housing and shelters for the homeless. That it hasn't is a failure of the local government, and should be addressed. Much of the reason that affordable housing is out of reach of many in San Francisco is due to government regulation, not market capitalism. Extremely restrictive construction laws and absurd rent controls distort the housing market, which is driving the expensive home market and massive rents. A large portion of the blame for this situation falls to the government - they wrote the laws, they built this disaster.
Re: SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’
#10I wonder if this was s stunt to get attention on his company? This seems so cartoonish, I mean you could picture wealthy people thinking this way but to me it almost seems too insensitive. Maybe a publicity stunt that backfired a little. On the other hand maybe he is so sheltered as to think this is an actual problem he's helping solve...
No, people really do think this way. Most of them have just learned not to voice their opinions in places where they will be criticized for it.