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Silicon Valley has a tendency to be mocked — there’s even an entire HBO comedy centered around the absurdities of living and working there.
But one Twitter user approached this subject in a new way: comparing the tech capital of the world to the former Soviet Union. Anton Troynikov created a Twitter thread on July 5 that quickly went viral over the weekend, making tongue-in-cheek comparisons between working for a tech giant like Tesla or Amazon and working in the USSR.
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Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:
– waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it’s of poor workmanship and quality
– promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out
Here are some of the highlights:
‘Living five adults to a two room apartment’
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‘Being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you’
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“‘Totally not illegal taxi’ taxis by private citizens moonlighting to make ends meet”
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See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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