Silicon Valley’s Inequality Machine: A Conversation with Anand Giridharadas

Re:Silicon Valley’s Inequality Machine: A Conversation with ... by Apocryphon on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:10PM (#19291930)

A brazen, open evil is more refreshing than a hidden one, at least in a place as falsely modest as Silicon Valley.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Inequality Machine: A Conversation with ... by jychien on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:51PM (#19292068)

I think this is a weird false dichotomy...What about just no evil and having a license plate?

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Inequality Machine: A Conversation with ... by Apocryphon on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:59PM (#19292105)

To tie it back to the original post at the start of this thread, and to the TC article- then we wouldn't be talking about Silicon Valley. Or other places of great wealth.

I wasn't actually praising Steve Jobs. I was just pointing that at least he was a rich elite jerk who was open about being a jerk, unlike so many of our contemporary rich elite jerks who cover it up because they're afraid of others realizing their mission statements and grand visions are just excuses to amass wealth and power.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Inequality Machine: A Conversation with ... by state_less on Sunday March 03, 2019 @08:11AM (#19294279)

The real jerk move if you’re a billionaire driving a Nissan is to be silent when it comes to taxing wealth. Since you don’t appear to need the money (driving a Nissan), then dump it into laying fiber, building bridges, repairing roads and paying teachers, etc... Put your algorithms to work finding the greatest good, because one way or another you ought to be putting over half back into your community (taxes or charity). That would look more like real modesty to me

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Inequality Machine: A Conversation with ... by badfrog on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:06PM (#19291919)

> It's not something to be emulated.

Which part? Driving a Mercedes (probably $50-100k) seems much better than driving some exotic million dollar car.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Inequality Machine: A Conversation with ... by derf_ on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:53PM (#19292074)

The part where he drove it for the maximum legal time he was not required to affix his license plates to the car (six months), and then leased a new one [1].

[1] https://www.itwire.com/it-people-news/enterprise/50649-the-t...

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Inequality Machine: A Conversation with ... by pmoriarty on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:59PM (#19292104)

Why are people allowed to drive without a license plate at all?

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Inequality Machine: A Conversation with ... by badfrog on Saturday March 02, 2019 @08:08PM (#19292121)

You need to be able to drive before your plates are mailed to you (or you pick them up at the DMV). Usually you're required to use a temporary paper license plate... maybe California is different on that? And 6 months is a really long time, something like 14 days should be plenty of time.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Inequality Machine: A Conversation with ... by martinpw on Saturday March 02, 2019 @08:22PM (#19292159)

There was incentive for delaying it as long as possible, for example you could evade tolls that were charged based on license plate readers.

It looks like as of this year (in California at least) there is now a requirement to have a temporary plate that is in the same location as the permanent one, partly to prevent people doing the above:

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/templp

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Inequality Machine: A Conversation with ... by pmoriarty on Saturday March 02, 2019 @08:39PM (#19292202)

"You need to be able to drive before your plates are mailed to you (or you pick them up at the DMV)."

Do you? Why couldn't you be required to get the plates first and attach them to any car plateless you wish to drive?

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Inequality Machine: A Conversation with ... by 01100011 on Saturday March 02, 2019 @08:22PM (#19292161)

I'm pretty sure CA just updated the law so that you now have to have a more descriptive paper plate affixed where your license plate should go. Basically they were having problems with people evading tolls and running red lights when they had no plates.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Inequality Machine: A Conversation with ... by masonic on Sunday March 03, 2019 @01:58AM (#19293163)

You aren't, anymore. However, plate theft is booming now.

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