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(I work for Google but opinions are my own) It’s more about convenience than the cost.

• tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago
  And the convenience is something that you simply cannot replicate with money right now. The only way to place gyms, makerspaces, and all the other fancy amenities right next to everyone's house would be to have very dense "techie towns" where the population (would have to he at the very least hundreds, better thousands) are all roughly like-minded, and even then you'd have issues with access control and trust (which requires a lot less friction inside a company, where too-far-out-of-bounds behavior is kept in check by the implied collateral of your high-paying job).
  • sneak 6y ago
    Or, just, you know, a city with modern density levels. This is entirely achievable even without some “techie town” if the density of an urban area is sufficient, as it is in many cities in the world.
    • tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago
      The city would have to be really dense to put all of this within 5-10 minutes door-to-door distance.