What if, when self-driving trucks were on the cusp, truckers decided to just blockade SF and Silicon Valley. That'd be a thing to see.
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Self-driving trucks and automated voice assistants are really good ways to take the wages from millions of working class people and shoving it directly into the pockets of a few hundred executives and data folks that do calculus real good.
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But ok let's just pretend like that's not a recipe for uprising.
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The tech industry is recreating the Company Town. People living on campus. Uber selling subprime car loans. Schools, food, childcare all managed through the company.
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Does the tech industry remember what ended the era of the Company Town the first time around? Armed. Militant. Organizing.
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I am not advocating for that, of course. I am merely providing a historical lesson to the industry I love, an industry that prides itself on forgetting history.
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It is a matter of my personal opinion, though, that of SV doesn't check its shit then it's truly risking others checking it for them.
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