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Tech money should be flexed in politics more. We’re paying taxes too, right?

• jeffbee 3y ago
  Way more than fucking Dede Wilsey is paying.
• dragonwriter 3y ago
  There has literally never been a time in the history of capitalistm when capitalist wealth from any industry wasn’t being flexed in politics for the interests of the particular capitalists (and, as a natural collateral effect, the industry) involved.
  • jeffbee 3y ago
    These parties are labor parties.
  • dehrmann 3y ago
    Because of SF's structure with its board of supervisors, I don't think tech had much influence in SF outside FiDi/SoMa/Mission Bay. After this (SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds) https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/put-algebra-1-back-in-eighth-grade/article_01ca608e-be01-11ed-9d12-5fb4111a4db8.html https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/put-algebra-1-back-in-eight... It's pretty clear tech isn't making the rules.