Re:Why People Hate the Google Bus
by srdev on Sunday May 26, 2013 @06:45PM
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I honestly find a lot of the arguments irksome particularly because many are predicated on the idea that techies can "afford to live somewhere else." Its a bit ridiculous to insinuate that its our moral duty to spend extra money from our paychecks (that we'd rather be saving) to live somewhere we don't want to so that other people can avoid change.
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This is what happens when understanding of basic economics and free markets is equated with libertarianism in most people's eyes.
Without an understanding of economics, people morally equate private transactions that raise the rent in an area (which causes no externalities) with polluting someone's water supply or running down bicyclists with your giant corporate buses (which are externalities).