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It's really not compelling them. Employees are free to bring their food from home, or order outside the shopping center. It's keeping a handle on incentives, wh
by null000 8y ago
It's really not compelling them. Employees are free to bring their food from home, or order outside the shopping center. It's keeping a handle on incentives, which is what any good government should be doing - incentivizing behavior that's good for the community and disincentivizing behavior that isn't.
In this case, they're removing the ability for facebook to keep the path of least resistance for food on campus to encourage people to eat outside the office, since they're already putting a bunch of effort into making the mixed-use retail/office/living area.
Calling this compulsion is like calling taxes slavery - you might feel strongly about the situation, it might impact you negatively, but don't expect much sympathy from those outside the bubble...
- noarchy 8y ago>incentivizing behavior that's good for the community and disincentivizing behavior that isn't. Or what this very small minority thinks is good for the community, and forcing it on everyone else. That's how it goes with all government decisions, of course.
- gamblor956 8y agoIn this case, the minority is the many millions of people in the Bay Area that don't work in tech...
- noarchy 8y ago>In this case, the minority is the many millions of people in the Bay Area that don't work in tech... Unless I'm quite mistaken (the article leads me to think otherwise), it isn't them making this decision.