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You're ignoring over half of Silicon Valley's history in your narrative, including the population boom that gave the region its name and the vast majority of it

You're ignoring over half of Silicon Valley's history in your narrative, including the population boom that gave the region its name and the vast majority of its growth. Silicon Valley has been getting transplants since the 60s. The region has grown around 15-20% in the last 20 years. From 1960 to 1980 region roughly tripled its population. There's a reason why prop 13 came about in the 70s. I'm not saying it will always be a tech mecca. But ignoring a majority of its history with tech just so you can compare it to Detroit seems disingenuous.

rcpt 6y ago
> There's a reason why prop 13 came about in the 70s. Because vengeful homeowners wanted a "revolt" to punish the government for taxing them. It wasn't because of home prices, 1978 Prop 8 would have solved that, they wanted revenge. It's greed and hate right down to the roots. https://teachingmalinche.com/2018/08/26/the-summer-that-elvis-died-and-proposition-13-was-born/ https://teachingmalinche.com/2018/08/26/the-summer-that-elvi...
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nostrademons 6y ago
Silicon Valley's been getting transplants since the 1860s. There's plenty of waves of immigrants before tech - the Gold Rush, Okies in the 1930s, WW2 GIs, the defense boom around Lockheed (which brought my father-in-law to the area; my wife is a Bay Area native), desktop software, and then finally the Internet. Just as Detroit had waves of migration from the 1700s - fur trading, Great Lakes trade, iron manufacturing, and then finally automobiles. I'm specifically picking Detroit from ~1895-1970 vs. Silicon Valley from ~1995-future because there's a similar dynamic at root. A single globally-relevant industry that's remaking society, and everybody pouring in to capitalize on this. Given similar root causes, it seems likely that their futures will be similar as well.

rcpt 6y ago

> There's a reason why prop 13 came about in the 70s. Because vengeful homeowners wanted a "revolt" to punish the government for taxing them. It wasn't because of home prices, 1978 Prop 8 would have solved that, they wanted revenge. It's greed and hate right down to the roots. https://teachingmalinche.com/2018/08/26/the-summer-that-elvis-died-and-proposition-13-was-born/ https://teachingmalinche.com/2018/08/26/the-summer-that-elvi...

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nostrademons 6y ago

Silicon Valley's been getting transplants since the 1860s. There's plenty of waves of immigrants before tech - the Gold Rush, Okies in the 1930s, WW2 GIs, the defense boom around Lockheed (which brought my father-in-law to the area; my wife is a Bay Area native), desktop software, and then finally the Internet. Just as Detroit had waves of migration from the 1700s - fur trading, Great Lakes trade, iron manufacturing, and then finally automobiles. I'm specifically picking Detroit from ~1895-1970 vs. Silicon Valley from ~1995-future because there's a similar dynamic at root. A single globally-relevant industry that's remaking society, and everybody pouring in to capitalize on this. Given similar root causes, it seems likely that their futures will be similar as well.