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Yep. Software engineer at Google in Mountain View here. I voted for Trump. I literally do not give a damn about anything else other than lowering my taxes. I d
by chronicy292 9y ago
Yep. Software engineer at Google in Mountain View here. I voted for Trump.
I literally do not give a damn about anything else other than lowering my taxes. I don't care about climate change (it is being accelerated by humans, I agree) and I literally don't care about BART or SF public transit or homelessness. Just give me my clean air vehicle tag so I can drive in the carpool lane as a single driver in my Model S.
Yes, there are tens of thousands of people like me in the bay area.
- wfo 9y agoYou are quite right to point this out so explicitly. It is something we all have to deal with -- the way that wealth and power and privilege insulate people from having to care about anything other than their own excess and immunize people against normal human emotions like empathy, kindness, the ability to recognize and appreciate your own luck and consider the misfortune of others, etc. STEM folks are the most susceptible to this, I think -- working in a technical field tends to isolate you from other people. Being wealthy and working in a technical field is horribly alienating. You literally, over time, lose the capacity to understand others or consider them as people.
- tootie 9y agoDouble for working in the valley which is like a giant tech worker gated community.
- shadowchair 9y agoOut of curiosity, do you not care about breathing unhealthy air? Are you aware we just had 5 or so days of unhealthy air (worse than Beijing air quality) because of the wildfires to our north, which are being worsened and increased by climate change? -- https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/09/why-is-2017-so-bad-for-wildfires-climate-change/539130/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/09/why-is-2...