https://apple.news/AyhdDsEJoRMSMmtFLqEUzZQ What do you think about this: How San Francisco broke America’s Heart
Pretty sure Nancy Pelosi is responsible
I agree with the article, techie monoculture (or lack of) is boring and sterile. No I don’t want to hear about your productivity startup at a restaurant, and Allbirds are ugly.
Tech is diverse but not diverse enough to include teachers, artists, service professionals, your uber and Lyft drivers, your grocery store workers, your servers and hosts, your baristas and cleaners. If the only people who can afford to live are those with tech skills, isn’t that a monoculture?
@epitaph yeah along the lines of what @Gentrified said I’m talking more about diversity in profession, every single person I meet is a programmer and it’s boring. The unbelievable amount of Kool Aid makes it insufferable to talk to many who think they are “changing the world” by fixing bugs in some iOS app. Also, from an ethnic perspective, I think you struck a little too broad with your characterization, let’s be real, 95% of the tech workforce is white/Chinese/Indian.
Interesting how the focus was entirely on tech workers and not on the city government which could’ve prevented the situation entirely with some rent laws. Oh, but that would mean they wouldn’t make so much money in property taxes.
Enough to rent ya mama for life. Have some respect newbie. Earn ya spurs.
It’s insane that they’re blaming locals with high wages. Blame is more likely to the non local, often out of country, PE funds that buy and build the ultra high cost housing and the city for allowing that instead of a more balanced affordable/modern/luxury split. On a separate note, if you create tens of thousands of jobs and only a fraction of local housing, of course this would happen? Even if the salary of new jobs follows a normal distribution, of it outpaces living space this is inevitable. Terribly managed by local government and taken advantage of by international and out of state PE
It’s easier to rally public opinion against a consistent common scapegoat (tech bros) rather than dig deep and explain the nuances of the problem. Standard media tactics since Jim Crow, since the Japanese were interned during WW2, etc. Sells more papers.
Almost 25 years ago, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine predicted every bit of this in "Past Tense". The class disparity, the squalor, the government corruption. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_Tense_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine) "The episode garnered acclaim for confronting American social issues in a science fiction context, but also for addressing various societal issues such as homelessness, poverty, race, and technology."
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Still looking forward to April 5th, 2063
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Only if you owned? And sold during a boom? After selling or being forced to sell, you could not afford to stay in SF.
City belongs to those who own, not to renters. Just like full time employees make a company and not contractors.