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    1 year ago

    A kinder version of a company town is still a company town, in the same way high-paying wage labor is still wage labor.

    This is not Google being charitable and caring about housing prices in the surrounding area. These are the people most able to work remotely; Google is bringing them back to their expensive office to justify its existence and saying “this time I’ll be your landlord, too.”