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>"The people outside your Google bus serve you coffee, watch your kids, have sex with you for money, make you food, and are being driven out of their neighborhoods," the flyer read. "While you guys live fat as hogs with your free 24/7 buffet [my emphasis], everyone else is scraping the bottom of their wallets, barely existing in this expensive world that you and your chums helped create."

Wow that is a lot of vitriol, it really does feel like back in High School. Too bad for the protestors there are fascist police to protect these fat nerds, er, techies.

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I particularly enjoyed the insinuation that tech employees are living among and extensively using prostitutes.

I wonder where did that claim originate. Maybe there's some grain of truth behind it? Or maybe it's just people remembering news like this http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23753946/12-child-prostitutes-...

I don't know about prostitutes, but one of my good friends works at an upscale strip club here and her clientele does primarily consist of tech workers, especially whenever a conference rolls around.

The protesters are professional activists, the progressive's progressive. They're not impugning the morals of tech workers. They probably called their colleague in activism at the sex worker's support organisation and asked if they wanted to come to the protest.

If we were all working on farms, or whatever it is their ideal is, we would be making our own coffee, working with our kids out in the fields, and would be too tired to be having sex at all. There's a whole class of shit jobs that wouldn't even exist.

I don't think anyone should be grateful for a barista job or whatever, but it's probably better than weeding a cornfield for six cents an hour. If everyone was poorer, everyone would be poorer. Income inequality has always existed and will always exist: money comes from value, and people have to create that value somehow. If you create less value, you'll have less money. (I agree that it's difficult to bootstrap yourself from shit job to riding around in a Wifi-enabled bus, and that's something we should try and fix. But the money to fix it has to come from somewhere.)

I love that flyer message. So Fight Club-ish

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