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Maybe you don't realize this but there's a homelessness crisis happening right now, partially due to massive gentrification brought on by successful tech compan
by dgzl 7y ago
Maybe you don't realize this but there's a homelessness crisis happening right now, partially due to massive gentrification brought on by successful tech companies.
You shouldn't pretend that there aren't negative side-effects from the collection of success and wealth in Seattle, Portland and the Bay Area.
Decentralizing the workforce would help decentralize the problem.
- closeparen 7y agoThe resources needed to solve homeless & poverty are also collecting there. Tax them. Either the tax rates drive people away and you achieve decentralization, or they solve the problem and decentralization isn’t needed.
- dgzl 7y agoAre you really advocating that we raise taxes with the intention of driving people away? I find that mentality vehemently disgusting. The government is expensive and wasteful, acts in bad faith, disrespects our rights, and steals from us every day. Why people idolize that, I have no idea.
- TulliusCicero 7y agoSo companies being successful and paying well is a bad thing? Of course there are bad side effects, but only because we've collectively decided to not solve the housing problem. It's not some obscure issue, we know how to fix it. We just choose not to. > Decentralizing the workforce would help decentralize the problem. If it was that simple, they'd have already done it because it would save them money. Organizationally, there are advantages to physical colocation that you're just ignoring here. It's the triumph of the city.