Why Silicon Valley hates the homeless

Re:Why Silicon Valley hates the homeless by gjmulhol on Sunday December 15, 2013 @04:59PM (#6911092)

I don't think this is really accurate. There are many reasons that the people who live in SF might not love the number of homeless that are in the city, but I don't think most of them are thinking "That could be me any day now."

This is conflating two groups in SF: startup people and big company techies. The people who are driving up rents (and seem to be the focus of recent controversy) are the big company techies. I do not think that those people that work at Google are worried about being homeless any time soon. Similar for Facebook, Genentech, Apple, and other bus-providing companies. People working on startups full time may feel more at risk of being homeless, but I don't think that even they are actively worried about being homeless -- though everyone is different, so maybe some are.

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Re:Why Silicon Valley hates the homeless by prodigal_erik on Sunday December 15, 2013 @05:13PM (#6911175)

Homelessness is scary, especially in this society. But there is not some number of startup failures after which I'm at risk of spending every day yelling gibberish and spitting on passers-by. And that stuff doesn't seem to happen in the valley, possibly because they were all drawn to the city where not so many people drive everywhere.

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Re:Why Silicon Valley hates the homeless by macoughl on Sunday December 15, 2013 @05:04PM (#6911118)

I'm with you. This feels like a pretty big reach.

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