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> There is an emerging political consciousness in Silicon Valley. Technologists are advancing a new way of understanding the challenges facing America and how t
by greendave 6y ago
> There is an emerging political consciousness in Silicon Valley. Technologists are advancing a new way of understanding the challenges facing America and how to solve them that do not split neatly along the traditional left right axis. However, to implement change along those new lines, there must be a will.
Really? Technologists are offering real solutions to the challenges of poverty and inequality in America? Looking around at the bay area, you certainly could've fooled me.
Few would dispute that the U.S. is in a bad way. But judging from Silicon Valley's major successes of the past decade, at least some skepticism seems in order.
- akudha 6y agoThere is a town in Mexico where the locals chased away the loggers, gangsters and much of politicians. They do a lot of things themselves which normally you'd expect a government to do. That is an extreme example (maybe necessary in gang infested areas of Mexico), but I wonder if it is time for communities to help themselves as much as they can, before looking to governments, institutions and billionaires. It sucks to be in this position though.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoYou'd have to have communities, though. From what I can tell, cities in the West don't have the kind of communities you're looking for. The kind consisting of people living and working in the same area, so that they know each other and have some level of personal relationship to each other, who own enough of the area they live in that they can meaningfully self-govern. In a modern Western town, people living in the same area work all across the town, never see each other, and most of them only rents the places they live in.