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It didn’t have to be this way and it still isn’t the only path we have. It’s possible to build technologies that are fundamentally more socialist and redistribu
by alphonsegaston 9y ago
It didn’t have to be this way and it still isn’t the only path we have. It’s possible to build technologies that are fundamentally more socialist and redistribute wealth back to their users. Social media is disruptible in this fashion and so is gathering data for training AIs.
San Francisco’s poverty and squalor is already a concrete example of where this Wall St 2.0 mentality leads. Let’s work on escaping this path.
- chasd00 9y agoyou're talking cyberspace but homelessness is a meatspace problem. No technology is going to solve homelessness, it's an "assholes and elbows" problem. It takes real, hard, physical and emotional work to solve.
- alphonsegaston 9y agoSolving both meatspace and cyberspace problems requires a fundamental change to how we distribute wealth in this country. Since the economy isn’t going to become less tech-oriented any time soon, making sure that technology is more economically democratic is incredibly important. Far less people in SF would be homeless if the tech economy wasn’t so focused on pushing all its gains to the wealthy (and less so to an engineer class that enables them).
- stevenwoo 9y agoYour argument would hold more water if the homelessness issue were not a problem all across coastal cities in California. I don't know what the cause is, but it isn't the technology industry, and I'm not a huge technology induestry booster.
- alphonsegaston 9y agoExtreme wealth inequality is the source of the problem everywhere. In SF, that inequality is driven by tech.