Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
Peter Robinson ·
December 6, 2012 at 6:41am
From a newspaper here in Northern California (with a hat tip to my friend Tikhon Bernstam):
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Comments:
Feb '12
Re: Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
Strikes me as unfair.
Occupy Palo Alto?
Re: Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
Paul Dougherty: Strikes me as unfair.
Occupy Palo Alto? · 1 minute ago
Why not? And if you bring the chardonnay, Paul, I'll bring the pinot noir.
May '10
Re: Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
I'm in with some caviar and toast points.
Sep '12
Re: Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
No Jetstreams, no peace!
Sep '12
Re: Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
Or is it Gulf Stream?
I'm more a Southwest guy, which is Air Greyhound.
Mar '11
Re: Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
"too far, too fast"?? In a town that has a posted speed limit of 25 mph -- which btw is stringently enforced!! Perhaps the State's Prop 30 ("tax the rich") has some good points after all, although the irony is always lost on a liberal. ;)
Mar '12
Re: Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
Billionaires running over millionaires. What a novel idea! I am glad I don't live in California anymore.
Jun '11
Re: Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
The best laugh I've had in weeks. Thanks!
Feb '12
Re: Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
If one cannot run roughshod from time to time then where is the incentive to being a billionaire?
Nov '11
Re: Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
We are the 1%, united against the oppressive 0.01%!
Nov '10
Re: Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
Crescent Park is a very, very choice neighborhood in PA with many grand homes. I know that Mr. Z. of Facebook moved in a year or so ago; I wonder if he is the billionaire in question?
Edited on December 6, 2012 at 3:30pmSep '12
Re: Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
Thank you for this laugh!! My in-laws live in Portola Valley, the hill-dwellers who look look down on Palo Altons...they would be chuckling over this too, since their community enforces strict codes to put a stranglehold on billionaire-hijinks of this sort!
Mar '11
Re: Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
"Have you no shame, sir!" they barked in their best Keith Olbermann impression...
Mar '11
Re: Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
The debate is over a planned development by John Arrillaga (who has funded many public projects in the Peninsula) at the intersection of University and El Camino Real.
The complaint in the paper about a billionaire just "coming in" to the area is also rich, considering that Arrillaga has a) been in Silicon Valley longer than almost anyone else here (since the 60s), b) used to be one of the largest property owners in the region, and c) has probably donated more than a few public facilities used by the complainer on a regular basis.
Edited on December 6, 2012 at 9:12pmOct '12
Re: Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
The 2% bickering with the 0.02%, Obama must be proud.
May '10
Re: Class Warfare Breaks Out in Silicon Valley
We are the 99.999%!