It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town

Re:It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town by takeout on Friday February 22, 2019 @11:32AM (#19226639)

This is such a ridiculously bad take. NYers were against Amazon for the same reason Seattle residents were against Amazon taking over SLU. Nobody wanted 15k gentrifying jobs in LIC, half a mile from the Queensbridge Projects. Nobody wanted 15k transplant yuppies who don't want to contribute to culture at all. Nobody wanted Greenpoint, Astoria, and Williamsburg to turn (even more into) a gross similacrum of the Mission, where all the black and brown people get kicked out in favor of boring ass FAANG employees who only leave their 3k a month railroads to go to Soulcycle.

NYC is still a tech town. But it's not _only_ a tech town. You don't have to only be one thing in order to succeed.

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Re:It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town by cdelsolar on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:58PM (#19228032)

how are the yuppies not contributing to culture? we invented avocado toast.

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Re:It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town by blang on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:44PM (#19227894)

The diversity of Seattle has increased with the number of Amazon employees:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-is-le...

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Re:It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town by takeout on Friday February 22, 2019 @05:00PM (#19229523)

Racial diversity != economic diversity. I can see why you thought I meant that, and for that I apologize.

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Re:It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town by wan23 on Friday February 22, 2019 @06:17PM (#19230075)

Note that by "nobody" you mean actually mean a majority of New Yorkers, according to polling. Only 35% of New Yorkers were opposed to the plan.

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