If you think about what the Bay Area tech boom was, it was essentially a huge make-money-at-all-costs operation. Investors, tech startups, and the money that do

If you think about what the Bay Area tech boom was, it was essentially a huge make-money-at-all-costs operation. Investors, tech startups, and the money that dominated the region set the tone for the culture. Despite all the talk about "making the world a better place", that was all a facade for making people filthy rich and trashing everything else that stood in the way of money. None of these companies cared about the things that make a healthy community and society. Certainly none of the politicians in the area did, many of which had symbiotic relationships with these entities, and that showed in the policies that manifested over the past decade.