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TL;DR > "Work-life balance cannot be achieved by spending all your life on a work campus. It's not real. It's not really engaging with the world in the way mos
by southerntofu 5y ago
TL;DR
> "Work-life balance cannot be achieved by spending all your life on a work campus. It's not real. It's not really engaging with the world in the way most people do," he said. "It also drains the immediate neighborhoods of being able to have a commercial reality."
- UnpossibleJim 5y agoIs it me or does it sound a little more than cultish?
- southerntofu 5y agoIt's a little worse than that, because a cult only destroys your life. These Silicon Valley corporations are destroying Earth as we know it (climate change, etc). (if you doubt it, think about it: how many resources does surveillance capitalism need to build datacenters just to hoard your personal that's unrelated to the service provided? p2p is far greener than any cloud service you can think of)
- closeparen 5y agoDo Mountain View and Sunnyvale and Cupertino want, or would they even allow, more and busier strip malls? I see these perks as fundamentally trying to make the suburban office park experience tolerable to younger workers, who would otherwise get this stuff from the city. I work for a more urban company and we don’t do any of this crap except lunch. We don’t need to; it’s down the street.