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The entire premise of this is flawed. I posted a huge ranty comment on Anil's page, but the TL;DR: * Tech companies have no expertise providing social services
by neilk 13y ago
The entire premise of this is flawed. I posted a huge ranty comment on Anil's page, but the TL;DR:
* Tech companies have no expertise providing social services.
* It is a very bad idea to have public services delivered at the whim of private companies.
The answer to this is taxes. You want to criticize Google? Criticize them for using offshore tax shelters.
There also seems to be a longing for Google to swoop in and somehow fix politics, but really, unless money or technology solves the problem, Google is not the answer.
- jinushaun 13y agoThe buses fix the Bay Area's bad public transportation problem. Now unless the Bay Area city and county govts and its residents are open to the idea of having tech companies use imminent domain and straight up pay for everything (like Google's municipal wifi initiative), I don't understand the hate for the buses. You don't hear this in NY.