Posted on 02/11/2014 2:52:45 PM PST by artichokegrower
The tech-bus protest isn’t just a San Francisco thing anymore.
This week, the anti-gentrification act of blocking a private shuttle full of high-paid tech workers spread to Seattle, where a handful of buses carrying Microsoft employees were stopped by demonstrators. The protest was chronicled by local Tweeps and community websites.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.sfgate.com ...
I noted a lot of mental illness in that video.
“tech-workers moving to the city ... were infusing Seattle with their bland, one-dimensional lifestyle and “sucking out what’s left of Seattle’s soul”
Uh-huh.”
In other words they they made it to expensive to be a no-good-lay-about-welfare-prince
Yes, they seemed to be very unhappy, very alienated people, many young.
They are the people that are being left behind by the information age.
Fifty or sixty years ago, they could have gotten manufacturing jobs that would have been boring at first, but which would have led to better things later. Unfortunately, those jobs sometimes create bad smells or big factories that are un-pretty when viewed against the backdrop of the untouched countryside. The political leaders of those very protestors have decided that jobs like that should be done by people in other countries, and factories like that should be built elsewhere.
It's a riot of perverse incentives.
Or a basement-dwelling "musician" who's a part-time barista.
Probably a Twitter poster.
You know, I used to live in the cap Hill neighborhood, one of those where the Microsoft buses went. I thought”how nice that a company is helping employees save on transportation and help relieve traffic. It seemed so nice. How could anybody object to this?” Remind me not to move back to that rathole again.
Seattle already lost its soul if they want these Occu-pigs to run things.
Yep, and it’s one neighborhood over from the one I was talking about.
80% Kerry in the precinct I was in in 2004. 86% Obama in2008.
It’s downright hilarious...Plus, for the global warming liberal idiots (both sides of this protest, I am sure), bussing is a “lower carbon” activity than everyone individually driving into work...ahhhh...I love the smell of irony at the end of the work day.
They are just using class envy in the warfare on
capitalist business. How dare a company treat it’s
workers better than another company or even better
than the unemployed!
“Soul” is not a concept I associated with Seattle. My former employer used to run buses (well, minivans) for employees in far-flung areas. The employees paid a monthly fee. It was environmentally conscious and reduced traffic congestion and all that.
Class envy - even if “class” is largely fictional these days - is always useful.
That indeed is what is happening in San Francisco. Now in Seattle. Rents are skyrocketing in SF. I went to middle school a block away from the heart of the Mission District, 24th & Mission. Used to be German/Irish/Italian until Mexicans turned it into a little Tijuana in the 1970s on. Lately, latinos were complaining about asian restaurants opening and "changing" the neighborhood, conveniently forgetting that latinos ruined the neighborhood when they immigrated in.
Just read some articles that white tech workers are changing the neighborhood around 24th & Mission for the better, latinos getting forced out due to high rents. Rents as high as $10G a month for apartments nearby. The welfare and handout types are griping. I'm laughing about it because they don't want the grime and crime changed for the better.
I guess they are upset that even more H1B visa Indians are not taking American jobs.
Gentrification complaints aren’t strictly about “redevelopment”. It’s about too many white people “spoiling the neighborhood”.
Urban used to be a dense commercial real estate in town. Now music programmers use that to refer to black demographics.
Kind of like when homos from coast to coast donated to Parker's campaign and gave Houston it's first lesbian mayor. Those who got her elected don't have to live under her policies and she didn't feel accountable to the voters here, either. She just renegged on a promise to not push homosexual activism from her office (where she issued a post-election edict to give same sex roommates partner benefits, this state does not recognize same sex marriages, and then she got "married" in another state even though she promised to wait until it could be held in Texas).I
Union goon rent a mob activity. Imagine that.
45 minutes they held a bus and the police did not act?
At what point are people being illegally detained?
Xenophobia. But it’s okay to hate on white people who talk differently.
Since these are “brainy” tech workers being discriminated against, I’ll quote from an early 70s Australian film...
“the arrogance of the stupid who expect you to be as stupid as them.”” (Wake In Fright)
Interesting point.
I’ve never been any kind of urban.
Popcorn!
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