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The two biggest issues that San Francisco faces are housing and transportation. You say that they would be accused of influencing local politics, but I am reaso
by DannoHung 11y ago
The two biggest issues that San Francisco faces are housing and transportation. You say that they would be accused of influencing local politics, but I am reasonably sure that busting the building height cap and using money to get better mass transit options would be viewed very favorably by all but a few of the NIMBYest citizens.
In any case, the fundamental underlying problem is that tech has created a monotonous economy in the Bay. No locality that has one has good economics for citizens.
- convexfunction 11y ago(I'm not the author of that article, just a friend of mine) I expect that if the tech companies were deeply involved in encouraging development and mass transit, then a sizeable percentage of people in SF and elsewhere would decide that this is bad. Most of the press would focus on individual personalities with bad optics and on sub-issues that involve sacred victims, since those are the kinds of things that the readers want to hear about, and "tech companies are villains who do bad things" is an established narrative that it's easy to understand new events by; public opinion follows naturally. And if that's not the case, one of my takeaways is that there would be something else that people decide is intolerable about the tech companies. The issue is not the issues; the issue is the narrative, into which a limitless number of stories can fit.