If you wanted to see how many people don’t know what taxes are or how they work, read the notes
I think my only problem with continued joke— tech bros just invented busses tech bros just invented renting etc— is that it assumes these guys are just clueless idiots who don’t know how the world works. The reality is these guys know exactly what they’re doing and what they’re doing is creating a lifestyle that deliberately excludes the poor. Re-invent the bus system so you don’t have to sit next to the poor. Re-invent renting to be even more exclusive.
Re-invent taxes so you be sure your money is only helping “your community” ie other wealthy people and then vote to lower actual taxes so that none of that money goes to help anybody else.
This is absolutely a purposeful plan. Nobody wants to drive on roads with potholes or walk on broken sidewalks but why should our tax money go to *those people* I know let’s create a “community startup” so we can cut taxes without personal inconvenience.
this, and also I feel like the term “tech-bro” is necessarily obfuscatory of the class dynamics of the situation here, since it can be as easily applied to a computer janitor who likes different pop culture than you (THIS MAN IS YOUR FRIEND, HE (COULD BE PERSUADED TO) FIGHT FOR FREEDOM) as to venture capitalist placing strategic bets on “exit”-based infrastructure (THIS MAN IS YOUR ENEMY)
all of these are neglecting to mention the startup in question wasn’t started by a “tech-bro” but a black man looking to help his community because his local government refused to
and then because that very important fact is going completely unexamined, the assumptions made in ignorance of it continue to pile up
you make a bulleted list and press tab until the text either is all the way on the right or it disappears depending on the resolution of the computer it’s viewed on. also, it doesn’t work on mobile.
Cardiff UK (SPX) May 01, 2018
The birth of stars from dense clouds of gas and dust may be happening in a completely unexpected way in our own galaxy and beyond.
This is according to an international team of researchers, including scientists from Cardiff University, who have found that long-held assumptions about the relationship between the mass of star-forming clouds of dust and gas and the eventual mass of the star i Full article
The birth of stars from dense clouds of gas and dust may be happening in a completely unexpected way in our own galaxy and beyond. This is according to an international team of researchers, including scientists from Cardiff University, who have found that long-held assumptions about the relationship between the mass of star-forming clouds of dust and gas and the eventual mass of the star i
