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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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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I think we can take on ethical issues without slamming math and data science. That's a growing field with tons of jobs and more coming. Let's talk about job training programs to get transition people into those careers.
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This is a peculiar take, as nothing here is "slamming" data science or math, and I am both a mathematician by degree and a data scientist by profession.
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Furthermore, there is no scalable path from low-wage working class to high-wage white collar jobs. It doesn't exist, it never has.
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Doesn't mean there can't be. I'm talking about making higher ed more affordable, alternatives to grad school when people want to be statisticians and data scientists, etc.
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Alternatively we should figure out something for people to do besides bullshit makework
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Fatal flaw with driving truck is if you don't spend time at home with your family they eventually wander off. They have all the trappings of middle-class life, but no time at home. The wife starts growing away from them & looking at the pool guy. They're lonely. And out of shape.
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