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> Google arguably pioneered the model of "office will have everything you need"

No, that was company towns, which are frontier era.

'We provide everything you need' is also a good way to run a cult. The cost of leaving is that you lose everything, including friends and family.

Right now Google can't get your whole family working at the company so they don't have quite the lock on people that they could.




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