It makes much more sense if you read this story as a salvo in a class war not between homeless and billionaires but between two different groups in the Valley m

It makes much more sense if you read this story as a salvo in a class war not between homeless and billionaires but between two different groups in the Valley middle class. In this reading, the homeless are a convenient prop to demonstrate why an engineer who wants to rent an apartment is doing something morally evil, to whit, taking an apartment that One Of Us could rent.