The Graver Threat of the Growing Tech Backlash
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#2Starting off by citing the thoroughly debunked Google bus incident is not going to help your credibility but no one probably even read the article anyway.
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#4Starting off by citing the thoroughly debunked Google bus incident is not going to help your credibility but no one probably even read the article anyway.
I know there was a fake[1] one beforehand, but this[2] one happened for real. Or are you say this is fake too?
1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57615006-93/fake-google-emp...
2. http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/12/09/protesters-block-goog...
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#5From someone living in Mountain View, this seems stupid on the part of San Francisco based protesters. There's been many, many examples of cities being hollowed out and losing their entire tax base because of the need for "equality." Push too far, and all those tech workers might decide that living in the suburbs isn't too bad.
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#6Is this anything more than a concern about gentrification in the Bay Area? "Tech" isn't causing gentrification anywhere else, and none of the other offenses (worker safety, taxes, privacy) seem to engender any strong emotional response towards the tech industry.
The Bay Area has pretty intense class issues, that is true, but the relation of those class issues to the tech industry is purely local.
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#7Everyone sees the success, but no one sees what it took to get there. They don't see the intense, competitive interviews tech workers go through. They don't see the grueling comp sci/engineering coursework they do leading up to said interviews. And they definitely don't see the thousands of hours programmers put into teaching themselves new skills and technologies.
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#9Everything in this article comes back to housing. That's not the tech. industry's fault. The tech. industry would love to have more housing in San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area. Housing prices have increased so quickly, and are currently at such a high level that even highly paid tech. workers are thinking twice about moving to SF. We see it often enough in the comment threads right here.
The problem is that the existing residents of San Francisco would like to preserve their relatively low density city, and simultaneously cram several million more people into it. In every other growing city, swathes of older, low-density housing are torn down and replaced with higher density apartment and condominium blocks. These high-density urban high-rises relieve the pressure on the remaining, cheaper, low density residential properties, while simultaneously adding additional economic growth and neighborhood vitality. It just seems that the residents of San Francisco have made a collective choice that they'd rather have the "charm" of their "historic" (like you can call anything less than 200 years old historic) city, rather having a city that people can move into and live in on less than programmer wages.
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#10Everything in this article comes back to housing. That's not the tech. industry's fault. The tech. industry would love to have more housing in San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area. Housing prices have increased so quickly, and are currently at such a high level that even highly paid tech. workers are thinking twice about moving to SF. We see it often enough in the comment threads right here. The problem is that…
Spot on. Not trying to be cliche, but big government is what's causing these problems. If they would allow high rises to be built, we wouldn't be seeing these issues.