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> if you can't figure out how to gain from an influx of wealthy, highly-educated, low-criminality, nerdy tech workers, then that's really on you. What a gift!
by wolverine876 4y ago
> if you can't figure out how to gain from an influx of wealthy, highly-educated, low-criminality, nerdy tech workers, then that's really on you. What a gift!
Those tech workers, once they move, are not customers, they are the city. It's their city as much as anyone's, any failures or successes are theirs; what have they done?
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> what have they done? This should be easy to answer once the city starts cutting its budget.
- lelandbatey 4y agoNew arrivals to a city, no matter their socioeconomic status, in the aggregate, have less influence than folks who are long established in the city. It's a human thing.
- adasdasdas 4y agoThey made it easier/more profitable to develop land by driving prices up
- xapata 4y agoNot in the places they left.
- closeparen 4y agoRecent arrivals pay the lion’s share of property taxes thanks to Prop 13. Income tax on tech wages and stocks gave California its budget surplus in recent years. Political advocacy is a bit more limited, but you have to keep in mind that tech is heavily foreign born. I’m the only one of my work friends who can vote.