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Can't someone see the absurdity of this? Building temporary housing for extremely well-paid employees in a city where everyone is rich? Something is off to say

Can't someone see the absurdity of this? Building temporary housing for extremely well-paid employees in a city where everyone is rich? Something is off to say the least ... they will end up with uber-expensive makeshift homes because people can simply afford to pay more for them. The logical thing to do would be to expand their offices in other cities, or offer remote work. It all seems to be driven by the billionaires who just love their city, but maybe someone should point out that in the end the entire wealth and vibrance of the US will be concentrated in a single city and that would have very bad implications.

s0rce 9y ago
The peasants (reasonably well paid tech workers) flock to their wealthy patrons (billionaire CEOs).
- return0 9y ago
  The last time that didn't end very well
  - sonthonax 9y ago
    Don't expect change to come from the peasants. They have bulwark of conservatism throughout history.
- sidlls 9y ago
  Come now, they don't see themselves as peasants. They're getting paid to do what they love! What more do they want? They should feel lucky that their rich patrons deign to pay them for doing something they're so passionate about. (This comment is a sarcastic commentary on attitudes in this industry.)
narrator 9y ago
Unlike polluting industries of old, billionaires want to live next to their modern day tech factories. Thus their headquarters are a short drive away from their minimum 3 million dollar ranch homes in Palo Alto, their town councils demand low growth to keep the traffic down and the feeling suburban and all the worker bees must commute in from someplace uglier where poor people may live. Seriously, this is why all this is happening. There is no other reason. Google is attempting to remedy this problem by building compact quarantined worker bee colonies that won't impact the multi-millionaire enclaves that management cherishes.
xienze 9y ago
> It all seems to be driven by the billionaires who just love their city I think it's more on the workers than anything else. The types who flock to Google, Facebook, etc. are mostly urbanites who'd sooner die than live anywhere outside of the coasts. So, you put your offices where your target demo of workers want to live.

s0rce 9y ago

The peasants (reasonably well paid tech workers) flock to their wealthy patrons (billionaire CEOs).

return0 9y ago
The last time that didn't end very well
- sonthonax 9y ago
  Don't expect change to come from the peasants. They have bulwark of conservatism throughout history.
sidlls 9y ago
Come now, they don't see themselves as peasants. They're getting paid to do what they love! What more do they want? They should feel lucky that their rich patrons deign to pay them for doing something they're so passionate about. (This comment is a sarcastic commentary on attitudes in this industry.)

narrator 9y ago

Unlike polluting industries of old, billionaires want to live next to their modern day tech factories. Thus their headquarters are a short drive away from their minimum 3 million dollar ranch homes in Palo Alto, their town councils demand low growth to keep the traffic down and the feeling suburban and all the worker bees must commute in from someplace uglier where poor people may live. Seriously, this is why all this is happening. There is no other reason. Google is attempting to remedy this problem by building compact quarantined worker bee colonies that won't impact the multi-millionaire enclaves that management cherishes.

xienze 9y ago

> It all seems to be driven by the billionaires who just love their city I think it's more on the workers than anything else. The types who flock to Google, Facebook, etc. are mostly urbanites who'd sooner die than live anywhere outside of the coasts. So, you put your offices where your target demo of workers want to live.