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Yes. The overwhelming majority of people that I worked with in SV had never been poor, never been homeless, never worked a fast food or customer facing retail j
by daniel_reetz 4y ago
Yes. The overwhelming majority of people that I worked with in SV had never been poor, never been homeless, never worked a fast food or customer facing retail job, and never lacked support from family or some kind of extended network.
They were accustomed to lightning fast internet on Macbooks and constant technological churn. Unfortunately for these exceptional people, poverty is logic resistant and nearly impossible to understand second-hand.
- KennyBlanken 4y agoThere's a strong right-wing libertarian element among tech workers, particularly the near-retirement-age ones and the ones fresh out of school. Their logic is that poor people are poor because they didn't stay in school or were lazy or stupid, and thus aren't deserving of services and support. The tech scene's obsession with meritocracy is an extension of this.