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Just to be clear, your position is that Google should invest many millions into things that aren't business concerns at all for them. At a time when they get ma
by Kalium 12y ago
Just to be clear, your position is that Google should invest many millions into things that aren't business concerns at all for them. At a time when they get massive amounts of blowback for any attempt to be involved in local politics.
Is that right?
- x0x0 12y agoJust to be clear, you're now moving the goalposts -- I demonstrated your claim that google is involved is patent bullshit. Your claim about blowback is similar. And yes, companies -- and the larger they are, the more so -- should be involved in the communities in which they and their employees are located. This is true for many, perhaps most, firms that aren't tech firms. And they often are! Go to eg council meetings or zoning board meetings or other local government meetings in eg nyc. For many people in the communities in which these large tech firms are located, they've had bad effects. Google has a responsibility to these communities that they are currently ducking. The tech community as a whole has a responsibility to the bay area the community is almost entirely skipping out on. Being proactive about housing and transport would be helpful to both the employees and other residents of the communities.