There are many different factors behind this crisis, but one
incontrovertible fact looms over every explanation: there isn’t anywhere
for homeless people to live, and housing is the most reliable solution to homelessness.
Accordingly, the city of San Francisco’s Prop C is proposing to tax its
giant, super-profitable, tax-avoiding tech companies (with gross
turnover exceeding $50m) to build housing for 4,000 homeless people.
While some tech companies (like Salesforce) have backed the measure,
Lyft and Stripe have made major contributions to fund the No-on-C
campaign being run by the Chamber of Commerce’s PAC.
Lyft’s CEO calls the company “woke” and it is often positioned as “fair
trade Uber,” an ethical alternative to the Ayn-Rand-inspired
performative cruelty of Uber and its management. But Lyft’s major
investor is the human monster and Trump ally Peter Thiel
who believes women shouldn’t be allowed to vote and thinks that
“democracy is incompatible with freedom,” and every dime Lyft makes
enriches Thiel and gives him more money to spend on achieving his
apocalyptic extremist agenda.
