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>They will MASSIVELY decrease our home values... Your net worth is $1.7 billion, you can fuck off with your concern about that one home of yours experiencing a

>They will MASSIVELY decrease our home values... Your net worth is $1.7 billion, you can fuck off with your concern about that one home of yours experiencing a dip in value. I realize this comment isn't in the typical spirit of an HN comment, but that's just gross.

hotpotamus 4y ago
Do you think he really cares about home values or that he would have to breathe the same air as the poors?
- genocidicbunny 4y ago
  Glib answer: yes. Slightly less glib -- I think it's more about allowing the precedent. Not so much about breathing the same air as the poors, but more about letting the poors think they should have any such opportunity to share their air.
- mansion7 4y ago
  To be fair, even poor people don't like living around one another. That's why they move away as soon as they can afford it. That's why after realizing her sudden immense wealth, even Patrisse Cullors purchased her homes in Inglewood and a spacious ranch in Conyers, GA, instead of say Compton or Oakland.
yazzku 4y ago
Why isn't it in the typical spirit? Fuck that guy and his pretentious ilk.
strikelaserclaw 4y ago
Don't his venture capital firm invest in garbage crypto companies? I seriously doubt this guy has any ethics at all.
jollybean 4y ago
No, non-Atherton residents can 'f-off' with whatever their opinions are, unless it materially affects the community at large. The residents can have whatever kind of municipality they want. If they want to keep it quiet and not be Manhatten, it's their prerogative. Now - blocking the electrification of Caltrain - that - is actual NIMBYISM, because they're blocking needed infrastructure changes that don't likely hugely affect them. Those kinds of actions make it impossible to have High Speed Trains etc. etc.. But otherwise, there's plenty of land, people can go elsewhere, and tell Google they need to open an office in Morgan Hill because nobody can get to GHQ without spending 1/2 their salary just to survive.
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- jjulius 4y ago
  No. What happens in Atherton is, indeed, the business of Atherton residents. But if you have a net worth of $1.3 billion, and you walk around publicly telling every other municipality what they need to do, only to turn around and publicly refuse to do that in your municipality under the auspices of, "My gigantic pile of 'fuck you' money will still be a gigantic pile of 'fuck you' money just ever-so-slightly-smaller, so much so that I won't even notice the difference," then... yep. We're all going to roll our eyes and tell you to fuck off. Now, you don't have to fuck off. That's your prerogative (after all, you've got all of that "fuck you" money!). But we'll still tell you to. Plain and simple.
  - jollybean 4y ago
    Andreessen isn't telling other communities what to do. 'It's Time To Build' is not about 'building buildings', for gosh sake's, it's about building companies, innovating, organizing ourselves better and 'doing stuff'. Not 'building homes' in Los Angeles. You can 'fuck off' with your 'fucking off' language, this isn't the place for uninformed mob rage. People have their quiet neighbourhoods and want to keep them that, it's not really any of your business. There's plenty of room for you to express yourself and even get angry with other by telling them to 'f-off' just not in Atherton apparently.

hotpotamus 4y ago

Do you think he really cares about home values or that he would have to breathe the same air as the poors?

genocidicbunny 4y ago
Glib answer: yes. Slightly less glib -- I think it's more about allowing the precedent. Not so much about breathing the same air as the poors, but more about letting the poors think they should have any such opportunity to share their air.
mansion7 4y ago
To be fair, even poor people don't like living around one another. That's why they move away as soon as they can afford it. That's why after realizing her sudden immense wealth, even Patrisse Cullors purchased her homes in Inglewood and a spacious ranch in Conyers, GA, instead of say Compton or Oakland.

yazzku 4y ago

Why isn't it in the typical spirit? Fuck that guy and his pretentious ilk.

strikelaserclaw 4y ago

Don't his venture capital firm invest in garbage crypto companies? I seriously doubt this guy has any ethics at all.

jollybean 4y ago

No, non-Atherton residents can 'f-off' with whatever their opinions are, unless it materially affects the community at large. The residents can have whatever kind of municipality they want. If they want to keep it quiet and not be Manhatten, it's their prerogative. Now - blocking the electrification of Caltrain - that - is actual NIMBYISM, because they're blocking needed infrastructure changes that don't likely hugely affect them. Those kinds of actions make it impossible to have High Speed Trains etc. etc.. But otherwise, there's plenty of land, people can go elsewhere, and tell Google they need to open an office in Morgan Hill because nobody can get to GHQ without spending 1/2 their salary just to survive.

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jjulius 4y ago
No. What happens in Atherton is, indeed, the business of Atherton residents. But if you have a net worth of $1.3 billion, and you walk around publicly telling every other municipality what they need to do, only to turn around and publicly refuse to do that in your municipality under the auspices of, "My gigantic pile of 'fuck you' money will still be a gigantic pile of 'fuck you' money just ever-so-slightly-smaller, so much so that I won't even notice the difference," then... yep. We're all going to roll our eyes and tell you to fuck off. Now, you don't have to fuck off. That's your prerogative (after all, you've got all of that "fuck you" money!). But we'll still tell you to. Plain and simple.
- jollybean 4y ago
  Andreessen isn't telling other communities what to do. 'It's Time To Build' is not about 'building buildings', for gosh sake's, it's about building companies, innovating, organizing ourselves better and 'doing stuff'. Not 'building homes' in Los Angeles. You can 'fuck off' with your 'fucking off' language, this isn't the place for uninformed mob rage. People have their quiet neighbourhoods and want to keep them that, it's not really any of your business. There's plenty of room for you to express yourself and even get angry with other by telling them to 'f-off' just not in Atherton apparently.