Re:Apple Park Opens to Employees in April
by nodesocket on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @11:17AM
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> Parts of this should be open to the public.
Who do you think financed this? Apple consumers and investors (I am one) that's who, not taxpayers. Why should it be open to the public? If it were a government project it would still be under construction for the next 10 years.
> The public has had to endure all of the construction and has lost a large amount of land-space that could have been used for the community.
Or, in reality, Apple bought the real-estate, and pumped hundreds of millions (actually I just looked it up, it is billions with a B) of dollars into the economy and put scores of construction, engineers, and high skilled people to work building it. This isn't soviet Russia comrade.
Re:Apple Park Opens to Employees in April
by dmreedy on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @11:44AM
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Nor is this Howard Roark's wet dreams (even if it does also involve architecture). Your points are not unfounded, but I don't think the Godwin's Law-esque strawmaning is helpful here.
Who do you think financed this? Apple consumers and investors (I am one) that's who, not taxpayers. Why should it be open to the public? If it were a government project it would still be under construction for the next 10 years.
> The public has had to endure all of the construction and has lost a large amount of land-space that could have been used for the community.
Or, in reality, Apple bought the real-estate, and pumped hundreds of millions (actually I just looked it up, it is billions with a B) of dollars into the economy and put scores of construction, engineers, and high skilled people to work building it. This isn't soviet Russia comrade.