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San Francisco has already found "ways" to deal with many of those issues. They can't afford wait staff anymore, so restaurants are switching to counter service[
by joecot 8y ago
San Francisco has already found "ways" to deal with many of those issues. They can't afford wait staff anymore, so restaurants are switching to counter service[1]. A law firm started housing their lawyers in Texas and flying them in because it was cheaper than housing there [2]. Delivery drivers can't afford to work there, so they experimented with having robots do it instead [3].
It's been tremendously clear that San Francisco has become an experiment in seeing if you can still run a city while pushing out all the poor people. Its been worker infrastructure has been coming apart at the seams for years now and the city's leadership has made little attempt towards fixing it -- instead entrepreneurs are just trying to find ways to work around it. I have little confidence that threatening to pull federal housing funding will dissuade the city from their path.
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17394551 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17394551
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874565
3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15880100 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15880100