Poverty in the midst of splendor:
In the same affluent, suburban city where Google built its headquarters, Tes Saldana lives in a crowded but tidy camper she parks on the street.
She concedes it's "not a very nice living situation," but it also is not unusual. Until authorities told them to move, more than a dozen other RVs filled with people who can't afford rent joined Saldana on a tree-lined street in Mountain View, parked between a Target and a luxury apartment complex.
Homeless advocates and city officials say it's outrageous that in the shadow of a booming tech economy - where young millionaires dine on $15 wood-grilled avocado and think nothing of paying $1,000 for an iPhone X - thousands of families can't afford a home. Many of the homeless work regular jobs, in some cases serving the very people whose sky-high net worth is the reason housing has become unaffordable for so many.
You can read the rest @
http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/In-shadow-of-tech-boom-the-working-homeless-12337023.php
With a few exceptions, the tech culture which is taking over the US does NOT benefit We The People.
A new group of aristocrats has arisen in our midst. Why do we tolerate them?
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