You'll have to ask Ben Grossman, Head of Global Operations for Twitter Media, to repeat this poignant remark about San Francisco's new transit strike—because he deleted it. But not before we saw it.

Last time San Francisco's BART employees went on strike, local car rental app seized the opportunity: nothing says solidarity like a private helicopter ride. Today, with more labor rumblings, Uber is offering free boat rides to avoid public transportation.

Last week, in San Francisco, the lowly proles who work for Bay Area Rapid Transit went on strike. Tech columnist Sarah Lacy, who runs the incestuous startup publicity site PandoDaily, wants you to know how disgusted she is about this. How dare the transit workers have made life inconvenient for the only people who really matter, the ones who are changing the world with their startups?