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Abandon the Bay Area. It seems to me that ethnocentricity is rampant in the bay as a sub cultural norm. For example the Bay Area is big on tolerance, but if yo
by austincheney 8y ago
Abandon the Bay Area.
It seems to me that ethnocentricity is rampant in the bay as a sub cultural norm. For example the Bay Area is big on tolerance, but if you choose to voice political concerns that challenges the area’s popularity you will be silently shunned and ignored which counter-intuitively is intolerance. As a solid example review the firing of Brendan Eich from Mozilla. This kind of self-satisfying inward-facing deceptiveness allows any manner of isolating justification, such as ageism. In other areas wisdom and experience are rewarded commodities.
The Bay Area is also stupid expensive. You will make less money elsewhere but be instantly more wealthy. I would need to multiply my salary x3 to live the same in the Bay Area with a House half the size.
- antisthenes 8y agoFrom everything I've seen, heard, and read on HN, the Bay Area isn't really big on tolerance. It's big on virtue signaling specific kinds of tolerance towards certain groups, but that's about where it ends. Apparently people past middle age aren't one of those groups. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but those are my observations as a 3rd party - I have no skin in the game.
- city41 8y agoI think it depends on the type of company. I've never worked at a startup but it wouldn't surprise me if they tend to avoid older workers. I work for a larger company in the Bay Area and there are plenty of older workers (myself included). Anecdotally I've also known of older workers succeeding at other large Bay Area companies.
- gaius 8y agoApparently people past middle age aren't one of those groups. If Zuck had said whites or Asians or men “are just smarter” he would have been flayed alive, but he was (is?) brazenly ageist and not a murmur. That’s Silly Valley in a nutshell.
- datavirtue 8y agoDon't worry...he will be old soon.
- gaius 8y agoLaughing into his billions while his age cohort struggles thanks to people like him.
- Mononokay 8y agoEich's donations to causes restricted the freedom of his employees. That's generally considered a "no-no" when it comes to being liked by your employees. Shockingly, they may even protest it.
- insvwallhitsyou 8y agoActually, I don't think my management's political activities are any of my business, and vice versa. Once upon a time, this was known as being a busybody and intensely frowned upon.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoEven when those political activities are them saying that you are not deserving of the same rights as other people?
- insvwallhitsyou 8y agoIf I want to be entitled to my opinion, I have to allow others to have theirs.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoI find it insane that you believe that whether someone gets basic human rights is something that people should get to have opinions about.
- insvwallhitsyou 8y agoDownvoted and flagged. Apparently, this is now considered a scandalous idea.
- dang 8y agoIt's a tedious flamewar. We're trying to keep those off HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- s73v3r_ 8y ago"As a solid example review the firing of Brendan Eich from Mozilla" I like how everyone is so concerned with Eich, but not at all with the LGBT employees of his, for whom his actions flat out told them that he considered them second class citizens. Eich did not "challenge the area's popularity", his actions said that he felt those people were not deserving of the same rights that he was.