Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time Employees

Re:Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time... by tomcam on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @02:56PM (#20033173)

What’s wrong with trailer parks? What do you propose to replace them with?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time... by stcredzero on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @03:14PM (#20033349)

What’s wrong with trailer parks?

It's a big economic disadvantage. Your property depreciates rapidly. Meanwhile, you're still paying rent, and it's easier to get evicted.

What do you propose to replace them with?

How about communities of low cost housing, which allow for lower income people to build equity and which are somehow distinct enough to preclude co-option by well heeled tech employees? Maybe some kind of intentional community with such goals built into its charter?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time... by sonnyblarney on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:07PM (#20033844)

"What do you propose to replace them with?"

Homes.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time... by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @05:42PM (#20034693)

I think you may be misunderstanding what a trailer park is in this context. Most homes in most trailer parks aren't RVs or anything; they're reasonably normal houses built in the most cost-effective way, which happens to be building them in a factory and then shipping them to the final location on a trailer.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time... by tomcam on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @09:37PM (#20036112)

They are homes.

[ Parent | on HN ]