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This is like complaining of unequal vehicles at an airport: A relatively few can fly very fast and hold hundreds of passengers, but most are earthbound-bound an
by dpatru 4y ago
This is like complaining of unequal vehicles at an airport: A relatively few can fly very fast and hold hundreds of passengers, but most are earthbound-bound and can carry only a few passengers. Of course Silicon Valley has inequality: it’s home to some of the most impactful people on earth. Hobbling these people will do nothing to help the poor, just like crippling airliners will not improve the cars in airports parking lots.
- lapcat 4y ago> Hobbling these people What does that mean exactly?
- shitpostbot 4y ago[dead]
- tshaddox 4y agoSubjecting them to even the smallest, mildest mote of criticism.
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- holografix 4y agoWhat a bizarre comparison.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoThat's a very weak criticism. I think his analogy was fairly clear in what it was saying. "Bizarre" seems to mean "I don't like what it implied." But why bother to tell us that? Tell us why you don't like it. Better, give us a reason why you think it's wrong.
- otikik 4y agoI have seen poverty in a lot of places, and huge contrasts of wealth, but never the disparity I saw in SF. I’m talking about a Lamborghini parked next to a person lying on the floor, with no shoes, marred in their own excrements. It is crazy. > Hobbling these people will do nothing to help the poor There’s no one left to “hobble”.
- refurb 4y agoGo to a developing country and its worse, way worse. Not to say it isnt worth trying to fix.
- runnerup 4y agoI have spent a lot of time in GCC countries (Saudi, Qatar, UAE, Oman). It’s worse there in the sense that more people are dirt poor, but SF is worse in terms of more people being rich. What I mean is, in UAE/Saudi, the poor people are just as bad as the poor people in SF. But there are very, very few rich people. There’s also a lot of not dirt poor people (still poor). SF had so many many rich people and there or there are just as bad as the poor elsewhere.
- refurb 4y agoCome to Asia. You'll see people far richer than those in Silicon Valley next to people who parasites and diseases the Western world eliminated 100 years ago.
- runnerup 4y agoSure, but the rich won't be 15% of citizens of the city. It will be like 0.2-2%.
- ddtaylor 4y agoI'm confused. How is there being more people with less a better thing?
- otikik 4y ago
- P_I_Staker 4y agoThis is one of the most disgusting things I've read in a long, long time. > it’s home to some of the most impactful people on earth. It's home to some of the most entitled jerkoffs on earth. This website needs to call out this rhetoric, because it's riddled with self-congratulatory garbage. Go ahead and flag me or downvote my comment, but I really can't believe what I'm reading here sometimes.
- monero-xmr 4y agoYou are on a website focused on tech startups. The people who succeed at tech startups become absurdly rich. I’m in agreement with the parent commenter that hobbling the superstars to give more to poor people is the wrong move. I’m disgusted that people disagree with me, but I also understand why most people remain poor.
- reset8 4y ago[dead]
- mstipetic 4y agoIf only they had invested early into scam internet tokens like you did, they wouldn’t have these problems
- jacooper 4y agoSaying monero is a scam token, shows how much you know about crypto.
- fzeroracer 4y agoThis is what everyone says about their scam token.
- survirtual 4y agoMonero has proven at scale some cryptography that can be used to change everything. I recommend reading the codebases of projects before you write everything off as a scam. Monero is a legitimate project with enormous value, and active research on problems that matter; it is the primary private / anonymous digital cryptocurrency.
- freeone3000 4y agoGetting rid of homeless people will do nothing to techbros other than give them a fewer thing to complain about.
- trieste92 4y agoOne person is an airline, another person is a car... Not a very good comparison considering the basic needs of all people are practically the same: food, water, and shelter It's like you're saying that "impactful people" "need" the Atherton mansions they live in to the same degree that the homeless need housing Or in vehicle terms you're saying that one car needs a hangar as much as another car needs a parking spot (because the first one is driven to "more important" places)