Yeah instead of taking any responsibility for being a bunch of getrichquick assholes let's just say "oh it's always been like this" and keep trucking along. Nice job genius.
Don't get so defensive techbro. Remember, if you don't like it here anymore just move away.
Then you can do what the other techbros do on this board, boast about their new five acre forest house and shiny new Tesla, then post pics from their window showing off the view.
Are you seriously asking how expanding wealth disparity contributes to homelessness?
Does rent increasing across the entirety of the bay area (which increasingly only techies can afford) not contribute to poorer people getting kicked out and become homeless?
So tech folks came in looking to get rich quick, creating huge wealth disparities which helped fuel the homeless problem and the associated social issues, but now that they can all work from home and is complaining that SF is now "a dump" they all picked up and left. Sounds about right.
My Chinese friends who live in multiple different cities are all telling me the pandemic is pretty much over where they are located. Businesses are basically back to normal. Even mask wearing is not as widespread as it used to be out in the open (still required in most indoor spaces). I guess they must all be CCP stooges and are lying to me.
People thinks the CCP is some omnipotent organization and can suppress any and all information. If that's the case, then how do we even know about the Uyghur detention camps?
Because HN, in general, hates China with a passion. Please self-censor and refrain from saying anything positive about China in the future or you will be down-voted to oblivion.
Instead of yapping about how you "deactivated your Facebook account"; maybe you should do some inner reflection on how your work directly contributes to potentially making the world a worse place to live.
I mean, this is HN after all, where the majority of users work in tech.
All these kinds of posts, in addition to recent stories of techies' in-fighting (parents vs. single techies, want the same bay area pay for moving to the Midwest, etc. etc.), really has gradually opened my eyes to what SV is all about.
I could post the definition of irony here but I'll likely get down-voted to hell and back for "snark" or some such, but I'm pretty sure this situation being ironic and/or as a way to "learn from your mistakes" is not mutually exclusive.