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It's understandable. Look at pre 2012 SV. All the ping-pong tables, all the beanbag chairs, the free beer, the free laundry, the sleep-pods, the cafeterias, et
by Balgair 7y ago
It's understandable.
Look at pre 2012 SV. All the ping-pong tables, all the beanbag chairs, the free beer, the free laundry, the sleep-pods, the cafeterias, etc. 'Cynical' people thought that these accruements were meant to keep you there and working all the time. People got rid of their apartments, set up Winnebagos in the parking lot. Intents do matter, but still, if you were that kind of person, the one that thought Google was just college 2.0, well, yeah, quarantime is not going to be good to you.
This pandemic is resetting a lot of things. Expectations of intimacy are another thing on the list.
- Thorentis 7y agoWhat happened in 2012/13 that ended this?
- Balgair 7y agoIt's a complex issue and if you ask 10 people, you'll get 23 answers. One of my answers: the greater geopolitical community woke up to the power of Web 2.0 with Tahrir Square and the questions that social media technology poses to us all. Largely, Tahrir Square was the high water mark of Silicon Valley and the old promises of free information exchange and the hippie ethos that spawned it all. The reaction by the geopolitical leaders was swift afterwards. Again, super complex topic, I cannot stress this enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_revolution_of_2011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_revolution_of_2011
- Thorentis 7y agoThis is the first I've heard of this. Got any articles about this or want to give a longer explanation?
- taurath 7y ago> People got rid of their apartments, set up Winnebagos in the parking lot. Thats... a lot more about rent prices than people wanting to be at work all the time.
- hanspeter 7y agoIt was also just one guy, I think.
- KKKKkkkk1 7y agoWhen I visited the Google office in Mountain View, I noticed the streets around it were packed with parked RVs. Do those RVs belong to homeless employees?
- techslave 7y agono. homeless people