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This. It's truly amazing to me how much elitism is oozing in this thread from people who just keep repeating as though it is some well known fact that good peo
by kethinov 8y ago
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It's truly amazing to me how much elitism is oozing in this thread from people who just keep repeating as though it is some well known fact that good people only want to live in big cities, hence suffering cities clearly are only suffering because there is something fundamentally, immutably undesirable about them.
People need to drop these elitist attitudes. A huge number of tech workers would love to leave SF, NYC, etc if only the damn jobs would let them.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoIf what you say is true, then surely it would be reflected in reality.
- Apocryphon 8y agoIt could be, if only large companies would attempt to move to smaller cities, and show any interest in following through with that intention.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoI’m saying it must not be to their economic benefit, otherwise it would have happened already.
- kethinov 8y agoThe market is not perfectly rational. Sometimes companies do things that are against their economic interests due to irrational perceptions to the contrary.
- kethinov 8y agoIt is reflected in reality. The vast majority of GitLab's exclusively remote workforce does not live in SF or NYC. If more companies offered such terms, the labor pool would spread out more.
- usaar333 8y agoThe question is would your highly paid workers (needed to lead the ship) move. I've seen in practice very few who would.. most that have moved because of desires to be near family, but that reason won't create a singular new hot spot for tech.