consider a world exactly like ours, but no plumbing. now imagine trying to convince the san francisco board of supervisors to let you build an underground system of pipes, sewers, and treatment facilities for your bullshit "tech bro fantasy" of clean water.
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"YOU WANT TO KILL POOR PEOPLE" "huh? no, we want to build a system of pipes and treatment facilities that will provide clean water to everyone, eventually, we just need - " "POOR PEOPLE. DEAD. IN THE STREETS" "what? no! listen, we really think we can - " "MURDER WATER"
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I agree regarding the political obstacles. I don’t think though that we as the tech community should be patting ourselves on the back too much, since to a significant degree we forfeit our potential for changing this by refusing to engage in politics.
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one hundred percent agree. this city's slow motion collapse is the price of our apathy.
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