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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by 131012 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:19AM (#16384663)
I'd add that in this celebration of diversity, SF has become intelorant toward poverty. Being poor is now almost impossible due to astronomic rent. I might be wrong, but I assume you find very few working class people having anything to say about the tech utopia being built. Unless you talk to your uber driver once in a while.
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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by verylittlemeat on Friday February 16, 2018 @06:10AM (#16391525)
Counter intuitively I think we might be entering a time when being poor in SF is a boon.

With all the wealth going around many people feel ashamed of the obvious disparity of their success and the truly destitute. This could lead to a competition of virtue signaling among the SF wealthy to "give back" to the poor. Kind of like how you see the rich always donating to needy charities or celebrities at canned food drives.

Of course, helping the poor will just be social lip service but it will lead to tangible resources for the destitute.

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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by AdmiralAsshat on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:42AM (#16384873)
> Being poor is now almost impossible due to astronomic rent.

Did you mean to say "Being poor is now almost assured due to astronomic rent"?

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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by unclebucknasty on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:47AM (#16384922)
I think GP meant that subsisting as a poor person is impossible (or nearly so), due to astronomic rents.
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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by 131012 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @11:30AM (#16385284)
The comment is interesting, because it proposes that an engineer with a 100k salary is now taught as somewhat poor. Hence the impossibility of being working class poor. I'm from a G7 country and still, 100k a year is understood here as being rich. Call it the Silicon Valley distortion maybe?
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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by sjg007 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @11:58AM (#16385558)
A family of 4 living in San Mateo county making $105k is considered low income by HUD.
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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by RickJWagner on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:30PM (#16386320)
Wow.
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