This is honestly one of the reasons why I left NYC. It's not that I couldn't afford to live there, I'm just against paying exorbitant rents in principle, suppor

This is honestly one of the reasons why I left NYC. It's not that I couldn't afford to live there, I'm just against paying exorbitant rents in principle, supporting an aristocracy class receiving money for doing nothing. Same thing with student loans. Feels like the mafia is taking $1.2k/month of my paycheck. I figured I'd rather just opt out than participate in this extortion. It's funny how tech, by definition the most technologically industry, is so backwards when it comes to things like remote work. But VCs by definition are so wealthy that they have more money than they know what to do with, so there's no real incentive for them to change the status quo until it's disrupted underneath their feet. It's like the whole "nobody ever got fired for IBM" trope.