Jan 25th 2014, 18:07, by Adrianne Jeffries
Tom Perkins, one of the co-founders of the Silicon Valley powerhouse venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, is afraid the next Kristallnacht — a night of violence against Jews before the start of World War II — will happen in the Bay Area.
Perkins, who is 81, perceives a "rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent" that mirrors the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany, he says in a letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal.
Class tensions in the San Francisco Bay Area recently flared up over the area's skyrocketing rent and "Google buses," private luxury coaches that shuttle wealthy tech workers to the office. Perkins specifically calls out the Occupy movement and the San Fransciso Chronicle for...
Continue reading…
No comments:
Post a Comment