The Apple/Google/Adobe/et al. non-hire collusion is probably on hold for now due to the govt. investigations. The only good thing I can say about that era was

The Apple/Google/Adobe/et al. non-hire collusion is probably on hold for now due to the govt. investigations. The only good thing I can say about that era was that Google had their ass handed to them by Facebook, which was one of the few non-participants in the collusion. Google employees had few options but to go to Facebook in droves. Proposition 13 has nothing to do with tech employment directly. It was created because politicians just couldn't help themselves from raising real estate taxes voluntarily.