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Another thought: those workers and their companies could contribute to changing the situation in Silicon Valley and the rest of California: https://cayimby.org/
by davidw 6y ago
Another thought: those workers and their companies could contribute to changing the situation in Silicon Valley and the rest of California: https://cayimby.org/ https://cayimby.org/
Without a change in housing policy in the US, this just becomes a big game of musical chairs:
Guy moves from Silicon Valley to Portland, Oregon.
Portland gets too expensive for some other family, who move to Boise, Idaho. And so on...
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago>Guy moves from Silicon Valley to Portland, Oregon. Portland gets too expensive for some other family, who move to Boise, Idaho. And so on... Yup. It's a fundamental values problem that can't be fixed without a major ideological shift. A large number of people do not believe that people have the right to do more or less whatever they want on their property. Until that is fixed you're always going to have people saying "but you shouldn't be able to build that there".
- Apocryphon 6y agoMaybe the endgame is that these tech megacorps just do it themselves and build their own cities on empty land.
- asdff 6y agoGoogle just killed off their condo project. I'm fine with leaving the company town in the past, though. We need more public housing, and less private land speculators.
- lliamander 6y agoAnother option could be that living in a big city becomes less necessary. People flocked to these cities in the first place because they were seen as sources of social opportunities (jobs, venture capital, social networks). I would like to see the Internet disaggregate those opportunities.
- davidw 6y agoI've worked remotely, and for creative, collaborative work, and chance meetings and that sort of thing... I still think offices and cities win.