Yes. You should have to censor yourself for neighbors and peers to have a functioning society. You should not have to do it for corporations. The line is pretty cut and dry and we should fight to keep it.

Real question: what on earth does “on the street” mean in the tech startup world? Because I have a strong suspicion that “on the street” means just going to work a normal job like 300 million other people even despite personal anecdotes of one or two people who literally became homeless.

It’s like a kit car. It comes with the chassis and engine all intact, technically street-legal. You just get to decide whether you want windshields and doors, which some people consider pretty obvious and too much of a hassle to pretend they’re “optional”