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Silicon Valley's Tech Employees Are Getting Nervous (vanityfair.com)
An anonymous reader quotes an article on Vanity Fair: Private tech companies are feeling a contraction in Silicon Valley. The funding that venture capitalists have thrown at start-ups is dwindling, in small seed rounds and mega-rounds alike. There's a new postmortem written weekly about a start-up that's run out of cash and shut its doors. Start-up executives are sobering up, realizing that their companies actually need a path to profitability. Now, not wanting to be stuck on a sinking ship, tech employees are thinking about the bubble, too, as they plan their career moves.
The 40-hour week is a socialist conspiracy. Those who believe in it are Unamerican. Get your facts right.
It's like the late 90's again except we have cooler mobile phones.
Trolling is a art,
My Democrat friends post another fake graphic every day showing how the economy is doing just *great*, better than ever! and everybody has a job and Obama has saved us.
My Tea Party relatives in Idaho send me emails about how terrible the economy is with 92 million people out of work, how black women will cut off the heads of white men with guillotines and black men will rape white men at FEMA camps, and Donald Trump will save us from our sins. Another day in the right-wing echo chamber.
its just that they were so smug and self important about it
I am sorry to disappoint you, but I live and work in the valley, and I have seen no signs of the contraction described in TFA. My smugness has not diminished.
the truth likely lays in the middle
The middle of the road has dead armadillos and yellow lines.
Let's face it, white collar, upper middle class and upper class people do not live an "ordinary" lifestyle by definition
We have to deal with a lot of problems that "ordinary" people do not. For instance, we can't just hop in the car and go on a trip, without first doing a web search for Tesla charging stations. For some destinations, there are no chargers enroute, and we have to take the spouse's BMW instead.