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To: NobleFree
Bad title - nowhere in the article is it even attempted to establish that tech giants are particularly culpable

True. But there is no question the tech giants contribute to homelessness in places with high concentration of tech companies like San Francisco, Seattle etc.
Essentially firms like Google drive up rents and home prices so high that “normal” folks just can't afford them.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/02/real-estate-many-families-one-paycheck-away-from-being-homeless/

https://www.equaltimes.org/homeless-in-silicon-valley-how-the#.Xjb0yB7LddY

24 posted on 02/02/2020 8:14:35 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

tech giants


We must never forget that big business and big government go hand in hand.

I have made comments here about big business. They do need to be controlled. Have been accused of being an anti capitalist.

Folks, big business is not capitalism.

and the “being controlled” means government for most people. I like Trumps version of control. Get rid of regulations and have competition.


28 posted on 02/02/2020 8:28:03 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SmokingJoe
firms like Google drive up rents and home prices so high that “normal” folks just can't afford them.

Good point. I hadn't considered that connection (nor, it seems, did the author of the original article - although maybe the headline writer did).

34 posted on 02/02/2020 12:32:36 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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