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'I'll Make Their Life Miserable': Tech CEO Bullies Low-income Vendors By His Home (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes an article on The Guardian that has caused a spark on social media: A Silicon Valley tech CEO has sparked backlash for comments slamming local fruit vendors, saying he would "make their life miserable" and "destroy" their produce if they were stationed near his house -- making him the latest wealthy Californian entrepreneur to publicly rail against low-income people. Mark Woodward, CEO of software company Invoca, published -- and later deleted -- a Facebook post saying that he would have no qualms about aggressively harassing unauthorized fruit sellers in his neighborhood if they got near his home. "I would go out there and make their life miserable. I would do whatever it took to make them leave. If that meant destroying some of their produce, or standing out there with signs to chase everyone away, Or just making them very uncomfortable, I would do that in a heartbeat."
And when we have no home no job no doctor. We will just hang at your place and go head and call the cops the jail will give us room and board + a doctor.
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Or simply buy their bag of oranges and give them to staff. It's not even a sum of money someone in the upper middle class would miss and you'd brighten the lives (as well as garnering loyalty and likely better quality work) of your staff at the same.
Given the current silicon valley fad for doing dubiously legal things and worshiping it as 'disruption'; I'd say that this legacy economy NIMBY luddite is just unjustifiably enraged at the notion of disruptive entrepreneurship happening where it might affect his precious property values, rather than somebody elses'. Were this a context where there was a greater general respect for the idea that "we restrict certain things because we've determined that they make quality of life worse", I'd be inclined to be more sympathetic; but here I'm going with 'entrepreneur lashes out at entrepreneurs poorer than he is for for unaesthetic in his presence'.
That is because you're an asshole of the same level as this CEO.
they were truly unauthorized
And there you have it, the same solution the asshole of the story wants. "I don't like what they are doing, lets require permits to earn a living"
This kind of nanny state solution is exactly why the Elites of the world (like this asshole) think they can control others.
Here's my thought. Is the road, sidewalk or otherwise public? Then ignore the whiny asshole. Fuck adding layers of additional government control on people, we have enough already. ENOUGH already. WHY must the solution to every whiny asshole be "More Regulation"???
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
The county has an easement to put and maintain a road across the front of my property. They can even make me pay to add a sidewalk when they get around to it.
I do in fact own half the road in front of my house. I 'marked' the four corners of the lot when I first bought the place! Can't stop people from driving down it, the road is public in a limited sense.
The county cannot simply permit a third party to build a business on my property. They would have to 'adverse posses' it first.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
CEO of a telemarketing company. What did you expect?
Going there and destroy people's produce is destruction of property, which is vandalism or malicious mischief in California punishable by up to a year in prison.
I live in Texas, it is often punishable by death*. I'm not advocating DOING this, just pointing out exactly what you said. If we're just going to throw law and order out the window and inflict suffering on our fellow man because what they do annoys us. Doesn't really sound very nice, and certainly this will escalate. Incensed by a newly damaged lawn, our temper-challenged CEO will likely step this one up and retaliate. Someone will end up being hurt over unlicensed fruit sales.
* As long as you can find a way to couch it in the right terms under the castle doctrine or property crimes laws