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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."
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/
These people are scofflaws and should be treated as such and get no sympathy from anyone. Also I find it highly ironic that the people most eager to defend them are communist wannabes.
Western European socialism comes with crippling regulations that would make these people even bigger criminals. it has even less tolerance for marginal individual merchants.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
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.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Any permanent structures on my land belong to me. That is the law. Build something on my land...mine.
The bad part is that if I ignore the structure, eventually the land belongs to them. Which isn't going to happen.
It's my fruit stand, on my property. I'm free to tear it down. As an un-permitted outbuilding I don't even need a permit most places.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
"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?
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
"And that's why when you hear anyone spout "responsibility" or "no more handouts", it's really code for "I'm rich, f**k you, lower my taxes"."
That's a very limited view of what it means. You should enlighten yourself for the spoutings, "responsibility" or "no more handouts", means different things to different people.
1. The USA Federal Government, via the Constitution, has no right to provide Healthcare, Welfare, Education to anyone (with the exception of their employees).
2. Taxpayers should not be forced to support those who do not need support (recognizing that USA people have always supported folk who actually needed help).
3. Private endeavors, both profit and non-profit, work better than Federal Government endeavors.
4. Lots more...
I have seen the effects of USAID (USA Taxpayer money in the form of grants) in Africa. When handled by charitable, international concerns, a tremendous amount of work can be accomplished by starting the people on the road to self-sufficiency. It works in Africa because the Governments don't care about PC stuff. I have also seen the waste of USAID when run by Government agencies. There, like in the USA, the money is a route to corruption and continuing squalor for those the USAID is suppose to help.
In the USA, private organizations can follow the same principles and achieve similar results. But when the Governments intervene, the Tax Money is wasted -- corruption and squalor remain. "Letting George [Washington, i.e., the Federal Government] do it" -- community development is an exercise in futility because the USA Federal Government cares more about itself than it does its citizens or its responsibilities.
I have seen the alluded to examples with my own eyes and by interviewing people who participated before I did, while I did and after I did.