'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."

Comments

Re:Zoning laws are bad?

[__aaclcg7560]

Or are you saying that poor people can ignore them because they're poor?

Or should a rich person deny public access to a public beach because they're rich?

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/04/27/trial-ordered-over-public-access-to-vinod-khoslas-martins-beach/

Re:Two-Sided

[jedidiah]

Contrary to the current liberal narrative, upward mobility is quite possible. Some of us have engaged in this specifically to GET AWAY from the crap you clearly can't relate to.

Re:Two-Sided

[Archangel Michael]

"unlicensed and unauthorized" is the real problem IMHO. WHY must everything require a license by the state? Why does it bother you that selling food to earn a living, and is such a problem that it needs government intervention?

This is why we suck as a people, that the unnatural reaction to everything is "Need a permit, pay fees, regulatory licenses and taxes" to earn a fucking living? WHY?