Big Tech: You Owe the Bay Area Reparations
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Big Tech: You Owe the Bay Area Reparations
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#2Isn't that what they make firms pay taxes for?
So many bay area firms seem to think they live on sacred ground and wouldn't move anywhere else for any reason.
If their productivity is really a function of the place, the market-based answer is to raise local taxes until they start to leave.
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#3This blames governmental failings on corporations, which doesn’t make sense. It also seems a lot less altruistic given the author has opted into Medium’s paywall.
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#4Tech employees are in the same boat as the locals: they can't own homes either, and they are constantly treading water with long hours and heavy ageism to keep making money that keeps them in the middle class in the Bay Area. It's the homeowners who have actively lobbied against any development who are the real culprits here.
That is not to mention the utter failure of Bay Area towns to figure out mass transit that actually works, which would have averted this current catastrophe.
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#5CA state govt is, by its own admission, swimming in cash
these are the people you elected...again and again and again...to address these issues...CA Democrats have the votes to pass any legislation they want (Republicans cannot stop any Dem measure even if they all vote as a bloc)
if a government with no legislative barriers and a giant warchest won't address these issues, why should tech cos?
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#6Tech employees are in the same boat as the locals: they can't own homes either, and they are constantly treading water with long hours and heavy ageism to keep making money that keeps them in the middle class in the Bay Area. It's the homeowners who have actively lobbied against any development who are the real culprits here. That is not to mention the utter failure of Bay Area towns to figure out mass transit that a…
Every time I go to a conference in SF I wind up riding the BART from SFO with the Europeans. All the other Americans (including travelers in my party who might drag me along) insist on taking a Cab, Uber, Super Shuttle, or if they have exceptionally poor judgement they rent a car from the worst car rental center in the world. (If you used that rental center you’d assume car rentals are ripe for disruption and you’d start Silvercar)
Re: Big Tech: You Owe the Bay Area Reparations
#7Tech employees are in the same boat as the locals: they can't own homes either, and they are constantly treading water with long hours and heavy ageism to keep making money that keeps them in the middle class in the Bay Area. It's the homeowners who have actively lobbied against any development who are the real culprits here. That is not to mention the utter failure of Bay Area towns to figure out mass transit that a…
Every time I go to a conference in SF I wind up riding the BART from SFO with the Europeans. All the other Americans (including travelers in my party who might drag me along) insist on taking a Cab, Uber, Super Shuttle, or if they have exceptionally poor judgement they rent a car from the worst car rental center in the world. (If you used that rental center you’d assume car rentals are ripe for disruption and you’d s…
America, especially the West Coast, has a very strong driving culture. If you want to get somewhere, you get in the car. That's the default. I did this on my first visit to Seattle.