On pages 186/190 of his book Tools and weapons, The Promise and The Peril of the Digital Age, Brad explains that it is when attending a meeting of the group Challenge Seattle in June 2018 that he and Satya Nadella took the measure of the 'affordable housing crisis', agreeing somehow that was a negative externality of Microsoft and other high tech (and highly discriminatory) companies.While he was shocked by the long commute inflicted on the bellevue Chief of Police he did not seem to realize (does he today?) how many of the temps, suppliers employees of Microsoft had a very long commute with a much lower income., including very probably the receptionists laid off and outsourced by Bob Herbold in ... 1997.(page 251 in No Logo by Naomi Klein)
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