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SF Supervisors Move to Ban Workplace Cafeterias
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#22SF should ban private cars, because it deprives public and commercial transportation of customers.
SF should ban owning your own apartment, because it deprives landlords of rent.
SF should ban e-commerce purchases, because it deprives local retail stores of sales.
SF should ban cleaning your own home, because cleaning companies need more business.
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#23Maybe office workers prefer not to have to run the gauntlet of feces and hypodermic needles, just to buy a sandwich.
"San Francisco Man Steps on Hydodermic Needle, Demands Action"
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"SF Crime, Squalor Scares Away $40 Million Medical Convention"
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#24But London Breed is amazing... right, .. guys?
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#25The bit about local restaurants losing business seems like a pretty thin fig leaf over a law that's really about taking tech employees down a peg.
I don't live in the bay area, so maybe someone can fill me in. How is it supposedly so gentrified that nobody but software engineers can survive, yet local politicians feel comfortable doing things like this? Who actually lives in the city?
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#26This reminds me of the recent op-ed where the guy suggested replacing libraries with Amazon. Just a really dumb idea that is needlessly protectionist.
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#27But London Breed is amazing... right, .. guys?
Safai and Peskin are members of the "Progressive" faction, not Breed's "Moderate" faction. This proposal is classic Prog posturing. I doubt Breed is on board with it.
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#28What are the effective limits on these local tyrants?
I've heard many people watch movies at home instead of going to the theaters. Surely these home screens could be eliminated with some clever zoning restrictions.
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#29To the extent that discouraging this practice is useful, a tax seems more sensible than a zoning ban; a zoning ban, by effectively grandfathering incumbents, is basically a barrier to new entrants competing (if on-site cafeterias didn't have a business function, firms wouldn't spend money on them) with incumbents (whether for talent, or on productivity if food in-house contributes to that.) A tax can internalize what…
It's Peskin. Zoning is his weapon of choice.
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#30It seems that ultimately this just subsidizes the commercial real-estate owners. 1) Force companies to not have free cafeterias 2) Workers have to buy lunch from local businesses 3) Restaurant Location becomes more valuable given the large number of workers forced to find lunch and buy it. 4) Raise rents on restaurants because space is now more valuable, since it is basically subsidized by nearby tech companies. 5) R…
Regulations almost always cause some sort of rent seeking behavior. Sometimes they are negligible in comparison to the greater good gained from the regulation. I don't think this is the case here.