{"id":1104,"date":"2020-06-18T20:59:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T01:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2020-06-18T20:59:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T01:59:21","slug":"the-price-of-capitalism-socialism-for-the-rich-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"The Price Of Capitalism &#038; Socialism For The Rich &#8211; Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been binge rewatching Silicon Valley on HBO. I remember a scene from a few years ago when I first watched it and am now rewatching. It&#8217;s a very good scene.<\/p>\n<p>Gavin is trying to get the cheapest place and people to build his new box. China, Bengledesh, all the other cheaper labor places in the world he couldn&#8217;t do so he turned to the United States. Some little town in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>He got them to give him massive tax cuts, cleaned up facilities, etc&#8230; ya know, what rich NFL owners, Amazon, and other big corporations do.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, that strategy did not turn out well for his factory. Here&#8217;s what happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The mayor had the factory repainted.<\/li>\n<li>The painters left some oily rags in a garbage can.<\/li>\n<li>Because of cuts to the sanitation service, the trash was not collected.<\/li>\n<li>The rags smuldered and caught fire.<\/li>\n<li>Because of cuts to the fire department, the blaze spread.<\/li>\n<li>A number of concerned citizens tried to fight the fire, but because the water was cut off, they could not.<\/li>\n<li>The vast majority of the rare earth materials survived the fire until the flames evaded.<\/li>\n<li>Due to mass layoffs of police, the locals that were there to fight the fire, decided to loot the burned out factory.<\/li>\n<li>The national guard attempted to reach the factory to help stop it, but the roads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s just perfect to highlight what all goes wrong when capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich come together. In this instance, even though it&#8217;s fiction, it&#8217;s good to see how big companies can suffer from their own mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been binge rewatching Silicon Valley on HBO. I remember a scene from a few years ago when I first watched it and am now rewatching. It&#8217;s a very good scene. Gavin is trying to get the cheapest place and people to build his new box. China, Bengledesh, all the other cheaper labor places in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-t-v","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}