I don't get people mad about billionaires investing in vanity projects rather than Fixing Society when step one in any reasonable plan to Fix Society would be forcible regime change
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or like, no housing in the bay area is terrible, tech companies want to build housing because no one else is willing or able, it's company towns/serfdom
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and I mean, they're not wrong! it's ridiculous that a profit-motivated corporation should step in to "provide services" over the (theoritically) populace-happiness-motivated state
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but the fact is these are foremost failures of the state rather than predations of private enterprise
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(not even necessarily materially as much as definitionally--sovereignty claims are *supremacy* claims and thus assign ultimate responsibility for all)
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hence step one. but most people wouldn't want that, not yet anyway
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hang on, people get outraged at -bottled water donations to flint-? i find it hard to imagine a more noble cause, of all the things a corporation might do
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I have vague memories of a couple years ago people woketaking that it was a trojan horse for private takeover of public utilities but can't find anything specific from cursory twitter searching
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Imagine stanning for public utilities that are literally providing poison
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