Good. This will both alleviate pressure on the Bay Area as well as accelerating the political shift to the left in Texas. It's a win all around. I actually think that living in the Bay Area as a tech employee is increasingly unjustifiable from an ethical point-of-view. It was once the case where that was necessary for many career paths but that's increasingly not the case and the pandemic has hastened that shift. Why…
>Yet the reality is you're still contributing to that displacement even though you're not responsible for those policies.
You're arguing that people trying to make a better life for themselves are ruining the lives of others? I think it's extremely clear that Californian's own tax policies, along with NIMBYs are to blame here, not tech workers.
But this is typical, myopic 'blame the catalyst, not the problem' I see frequently from west coast-style leftists (and i say that as a staunch leftist). Tech workers are easy to point at because they are new-ish transplants (most have been here >15 years at this point), and they are considered culturally distasteful, and moderately well off.
Nobody wants to blame the multi-million dollar single family home owning boomer who voted themselves a property tax exemption in the 70s that they can literally pass to their kids (from an ethical perspective, you should be appalled that we're currently living through the birth of an actual, landed aristocracy)
The tech workers are literally trying to make a better life for themselves. The NIMBY homeowners are literally hording wealth. Yet we blame the young tech workers... it's total nonsense.