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Apple and Google Are Rerouting Their Employee Buses as Attacks Resume (mashable.com)
Slashdot reader sqorbit writes:
Apple runs shuttle buses for it's employees in San Francisco. It seems someone who is not happy with Apple has decided to take out their anger on these buses. In an email obtained by Mashable, Apple states "Due to recent incidents of broken windows along the commute route, specifically on highway 280, we're re-routing coaches for the time being. This change in routes could mean an additional 30-45 minutes of commute time in each direction for some riders." It has been reported that at least four buses have had windows broken, some speculating that it might caused by rubber bullets.
"Around four years ago, people started attacking the shuttle buses that took Google employees to and from work, as a way of protesting the tech-company-driven gentrification taking place around San Francisco," remembers Fortune, adding "it seems to be happening again."
At least one Google bus was also attacked, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, which adds that the buses "were not marked with company logos, and the perpetrators are suspected of broadly targeting technology shuttle buses rather than a specific company."
"Around four years ago, people started attacking the shuttle buses that took Google employees to and from work, as a way of protesting the tech-company-driven gentrification taking place around San Francisco," remembers Fortune, adding "it seems to be happening again."
At least one Google bus was also attacked, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, which adds that the buses "were not marked with company logos, and the perpetrators are suspected of broadly targeting technology shuttle buses rather than a specific company."
I was saying if you are property owner, to get a representation of the plight the renter suffer in the bay area, IMAGINE that your house cost (property tax, reparation cost etc...) went from 600$ to 4000$... Are you getting it now ? It would make it unlivable and you would have to sell.
OCD much? Imagine the plight of the renter, but now you're talking about selling the property? Renters can't sell the property, they don't own it. Hey, look, a squirrel!
California has property tax laws that keep them from suddenly skyrocketing, so what you are describing simply doesn't happen. It does happen gradually, but so what? If your property becomes worth too much money, you sell it and move. The mother of a friend of a friend bought into Napa valley (directly on Silverado trail) decades back. She sold her home for something like a million and a half when it became worth that much, because "that's just too much money" and she moved a couple counties over into a house worth a half million. And that's how it works. If you can't afford to stay in SF, you fuck off and let someone who can afford to pay the property taxes move in. It's not unexpected, and it's not any more unfair than anything else in capitalism. There's only so much SF to go around, and in a capitalist system, it's the person who can raise the capital who deserves to live there.
I'm all for [mostly] scrapping capitalism, but this is the system we live in, and complaining that supply and demand is a thing is juvenile. If you want to complain about capitalism, though, I'll be right there with you.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
These are true SJWs! How are you going to advance your cause by potentially hurting the rank and file people going to work. In the end, you sabotage your entire mission and you look like an asshole. What if one of those buses had gotten in a wreck and killed people? If you want to make a dent, you have to go after the big fish in the ivory towers. Fucking idiots!