[sudo-discuss] Oakland gentrification is very well planned & executed

[Ryan Bethencourt]

Marc I know you have a belief in moving technology that helps people and 
increases access for all and act on it, which I fully support and 
partner with you on where I can. I believe in putting people first too 
but I'm not against the profit motive, especially if it's driven by a 
mission to do broader good.

I don't however agree with your view on google or engineers that work 
for google. I've met some really great people who work at google and are 
very giving of their time and resources to help their local communities 
and I'm sure there are some who are part of the Sudo community who do 
likewise. I think it does us no good to speak in exclusionary terms of 
any group of people, I think it's okay to criticize an individual for 
their actions if they're not being excellent to people or animals but 
whenever we clump people into groups we risk doing exactly what we're 
against, which is being exclusionary.

I know you're not exclusionary, I just wanted to make sure there's a 
clear voice in the discussion that welcomes all people, Google engineer 
or not, to Sudo room to come and help us make the community and world 
better through technology.

Be excellent to each other (I like that line) :)

Ryan



    Google engineers are being vilified and yet I think it's a failure
    of governmental institutions to develop adequate policies to ensure
    a full range of housing and services are available for those who
    need it most and not engineers who are just looking for a decent
    place to live at a reasonable price.


Google engineers are responsible for their own actions and allegiances, 
regardless of failures of governmental institutions. It matters how you 
spend your time in this world and which organizations and projects you 
spend your time supporting, and if you spend your time supporting huge 
top-down for-profit corporations with questionable ethics while 
receiving major personal benefits, then I'm going to assume that you've 
prioritized personal gain over collaboration for the benefit of the 
local and global community, and I'm going to judge you for that. If you 
then contribute to actions that push out the less fortunate from their 
homes, well then fuck you. Google engineers can read the news just like 
everybody else and know what their selfish choice to live in SF is doing 
to others. Yes its true that the government should not be allowing this 
to happen, but that does not free anyone from their personal 
responsibility to be excellent to others. Just because something is 
legal does not mean it is right and the more power a person has, the 
more responsibility they should display in how they wield that power.


Marc Juul wrote:
> We are not trying to be inclusive of everyone. We are trying very 
> deliberately to exclude profiteering assholes who put their own 
> personal benefit first.

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