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The only way to fix the housing market in San Francisco without destroying what people love about living there is to reduce the number of people living in San F

The only way to fix the housing market in San Francisco without destroying what people love about living there is to reduce the number of people living in San Francisco. And the most direct and effective way of doing that is to destroy the ridiculous bias against remote working. For all the innovative, intelligent, talented people in the Valley that we haven't yet figured out how to work together to build software without physically being in the same room is pathetic. We'll look back on this in the same way we look back on child labor and seven day work weeks.

beatpanda 11y ago
I think you're wrong about this. Low-height buildings are not what I loved about living in San Francisco. I think San Francisco would become a dramatically more livable city if you just replaced some of the single-family homes in the Sunset with triplexes, for instance. But you're also right that there isn't a defensible reason for forcing so many people to move here to take jobs in the tech industry. Lots of people would live elsewhere and work remotely if they had the chance.
tribaal 11y ago
I'm surprised and a little saddened that this is not higher up. The root cause of the problem is that there are too many people wanting to move to San Fransisco because that's where the (tech) jobs are. Spread out the jobs to spread out the people?
- marknutter 11y ago
  I'm saddened, but not surprised. Like I said, there's a really weird bias that a lot of otherwise progressive and intelligent people have against remote work, and I've never heard any convincing arguments from people who've tried both that one way is categorically better than the other. Perhaps it will take something as extreme as a major environmental or economic catastrophe to warm people up to the idea because people seem to be clinging to the old ways for silly reasons.

beatpanda 11y ago

I think you're wrong about this. Low-height buildings are not what I loved about living in San Francisco. I think San Francisco would become a dramatically more livable city if you just replaced some of the single-family homes in the Sunset with triplexes, for instance. But you're also right that there isn't a defensible reason for forcing so many people to move here to take jobs in the tech industry. Lots of people would live elsewhere and work remotely if they had the chance.

tribaal 11y ago

I'm surprised and a little saddened that this is not higher up. The root cause of the problem is that there are too many people wanting to move to San Fransisco because that's where the (tech) jobs are. Spread out the jobs to spread out the people?

marknutter 11y ago
I'm saddened, but not surprised. Like I said, there's a really weird bias that a lot of otherwise progressive and intelligent people have against remote work, and I've never heard any convincing arguments from people who've tried both that one way is categorically better than the other. Perhaps it will take something as extreme as a major environmental or economic catastrophe to warm people up to the idea because people seem to be clinging to the old ways for silly reasons.