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The tech companies, and Google in particular have far more power and resources at their disposal and are actively trying to change society in numerous different
by gress 13y ago
The tech companies, and Google in particular have far more power and resources at their disposal and are actively trying to change society in numerous different ways. They choose not to use this power to improve the local community, instead insulating themselves from the problems by providing their employees with a way to ignore the lack of infrastructure around them.
What 'constructive ways' would you suggest people without money or power use to change the system?
- dragontamer 13y agoI dunno. They can always become the next Google or Facebook and do something with THEIR money. These mega-corps grew from nothing in only ~20 years. The new rich of America is NOT like the "old rich" of Wall Street. Basically any no-name nobody with 5 guys working in a basement can become the next Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Youtube, Pinterest, Groupon, Zynga or whatever.
- gress 13y agoIt's hard to take this comment seriously. It's clearly absurd, because otherwise we'd have 100,000s of new multi-billion dollar corporations, instead of a small handful. I'm starting to think it's more likely that you meant it sarcastically.
- dragontamer 13y agoNot multi-billion, but there are definitely thousands upon thousands of multi-tens-of-million dollar companies. There was a recent study on the "new upper class" of the USA. Most of it is "new money": first-generation millionares and first-generation billionares.
- gress 13y agoNone of whom seem to be interested in improving social policy other than for their own class.