I feel like the question of whether or not St. Louis (one example city) couldn't be as productive as San Francisco is left hanging. For certain kinds of industr

I feel like the question of whether or not St. Louis (one example city) couldn't be as productive as San Francisco is left hanging. For certain kinds of industries like manufacturing, location is everything but for software development and most non-face-to-face service industries you don't need the person to be in the same city or country to be productive. If anything, the article is built on the assumption productivity is the same across all industries in as much as the methods to achieve it. An office in St. Louis is just as good as an office in San Francisco or San Jose. Equally, a person in their own private office is just as productive as someone in their cubicle following similar practices of work. Frankly, the idea that everyone has to be in SV to make the same software of the same quality and at the same productivity level is at best naive.