Re:Less Popular Than Coal
by snickerbockers on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @07:32PM
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You'd think silicon valley would be more sympathetic towards people who don't want their communities turned into data centers given how people in the bay area think it's an affront against them personally for affordable housing to be built anywhere in their general vicinity.
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Silicon valkey doesnt have that sort of empathy. If they did they wouldnt have let such a crazy homeless problem develop while they made obscene money
Re:Less Popular Than Coal
by JuniperMesos on Thursday November 05, 2026 @02:19AM
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The homelessness problem in the bay area is mostly caused by the extremely high housing prices, which are ultimately caused by NIMBYism; and by the stupid and self-destructive empathy of the local progressive elites who think it's oppressive to use the police to force the most dysfunctional visibly homeless people living on the streets into involuntary treatment and shelter.
Neither of these phenomena are primarily the fault of the Silicon Valley tech industry; and NIMBYism in particular is largely driven by people who bought bay area houses many decades ago (my family is from the bay area, and I'm absolutely including my relatives in my parents' generation in that number - none of them work in the tech industry).