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It's a tool. You take a hammer, you can use it to build a house or you can bash in someone's skull. I estimate more houses have been built than skulls bashed in
by fallinghawks 6y ago
It's a tool. You take a hammer, you can use it to build a house or you can bash in someone's skull. I estimate more houses have been built than skulls bashed in.
- eat_veggies 6y agoIn the bay area this is not true.
- alex_young 6y agoIsn't the gating factor for adding housing in the Bay Area a political issue rather than a computing one?
- fallinghawks 6y agoThis comes down to your metrics. If you're suggesting that quality of life here is lower because of computers I would argue that it's tech companies that chose to establish themselves here, which increased the number of highly paid people wanting to live here, which drove up housing prices, traffic, and income disparity. The computers themselves are not the cause. It would be the case with any industry where there is one major physical center, such as Milan and art/fashion. As we've learned with the COVID-19 pandemic, work from home could allow tech companies to headquarter themselves elsewhere, or employees could live where they want. As it is, I wouldn't mind seeing some level of tech exodus since I live in the area of one of the shittier Bay Area commutes. But computers tell me when traffic is especially bad and gives me alternate routes.