One RV. One of hundreds in Palo Alto. Families living in these things because rent in Disruption Town is no longer a number that makes sense to anyone who actually works for a living.
State and city laws say they have to move every 72 hours. Can’t get too comfortable. Can’t put down roots. Keep moving, keep moving.
This family? Parked in the foothills. Fifty meters from Tesla headquarters. Fifty meters from SAP. You can practically see the executive parking lot from their window.
Tesla, of course, has since moved its headquarters to Texas. Elon’s a genius like that. Take the tax breaks, the infrastructure, the talent pool California built, then leave when it’s time to give something back. Genius.
Meanwhile, the family in the RV moves again in three days.
The future, they keep telling us. This is the future.
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity,
nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor
by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
Herman Melville