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Zohran Mamdani, in the New York City mayoral debate: "Free buses would cost $700M. Cuomo gave more—$959M—to Elon Musk for a failed Tesla factory." (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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[–] 69 points 11 months ago* (6 children)

You know how in the debate, the moderators posed this, "what if tech company A" wants to come or leave or etc.

Am I the only one in NYC who doesn't want the big tech companies? If Facebook or Google were going to leave NYC, I would be all for it. All the big corporate tech bros make this place worse, not better- they enshittify everything they touch.

Small tech, yes, big tech- or fucking "AI company with too much money doing some dotcom-like stupid product" - no.

Also - one edit - Facebook being in the old K-Mart building, somehow makes sense - except K-Mart was better. Somehow saw Phillip Glass there many a time.

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago

    I used to go to Venice Beach and admire the semi-quaint and weird vibes the area employed. Since Big Tech moved right next door, I noticed a decreased in diversity and an increase of tech bros ruining the scene. It no longer has the old vibes I once knew, in addition to everything in the area increased in price due to their presence.

    American's fascination with Oligarchs and celebrities is absurd.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I am tech worker and I try to make my city better, volunteer in a dog shelter, try to use public transport when possible (San Jose doesn’t have the best public transport)

    Don’t confuse tech workers to the top earners

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    I think the “big corporate tech bros” was meant to refer to the bigwigs. “Big” modifying “corporate tech bros”, not “big” modifying only “corporate”. English needs to normalize parenthesis for intra-phrase grouping.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    You saw Philip Glass at K-Mart many times? Story time?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Yeah. He's a super nice guy. I mean- every time I saw him, I just thanked him for his music, especially the string quartets. He probably was like, "oh it's the guy I see in K-mart who likes my string quartets." So, maybe he's not nice, but he was nice to me. I know someone who knows someone who says he is experiencing cognitive decline - so if you want to write him fan mail, now would be the time.

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