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It doesn't matter if you're friendly, it doesn't matter how long you've been in that position, here nobody cares about these things, although being friendly is
by batbomb 12y ago
It doesn't matter if you're friendly, it doesn't matter how long you've been in that position, here nobody cares about these things, although being friendly is nice it is not enough, and in many places you can get by somehow in a way you can't in the Bay Area tech scene.
The problem is that this attitude overflows into everyday lives, and that's why people protest the Google bus. People don't want to live in a world with insensitive assholes that get their jobs done. They don't want to live in a brave new world devoid of history and culture, segregated by industry, education, age, and class.
They especially don't want to live next door to the enlightened bay area techie that can't stop complaining about his company's acquisition by those darn Texans.
- tomjen3 12y agoWhy should we care about them? Let them rot, if it comes to where we have to we have more money to buy guards than they have.
- bkirkbri 12y agoBecause we live in a world that is not homogeneous and are all enriched as a result. Ending up as one's own version of Howard Hughes, locked in a room with a gun and a pile of money, is unappealing to me.
- tomjen3 12y agoI strongly disagree that we are enriched as a result. In fact if the world didn't have these conservatives in it we would have been much ahead. And just because there are some people you don't want to associate with doesn't mean you don't want to associate with people - just that after compulsory schooling I don't want to talk with/spend time with about 80% of the world. That leaves a bit over a billion, so it doesn't matter.
- bellerocky 12y agoPeople protest the Google Bus because cities let them use public bus spots and because big tech companies high pay is contributing to gentrification. It doesn't have anything to do with high efficiency and competency as a currency.