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A bit of an aside. But I would love a book on the comprehensive history of silicon valley up to and describing the crisis we face today of housing and everyone
by corethree 3y ago
A bit of an aside. But I would love a book on the comprehensive history of silicon valley up to and describing the crisis we face today of housing and everyone leaving.
- coldpie 3y ago> the crisis we face today of housing and everyone leaving Well, which is it? ;)
- jrmg 3y agoSo, I bought this and haven’t actually read it yet, so take my suggestion with a grain of salt, but I’ve _heard_ that this, from 2017, is good: https://www.amazon.com/Peopling-Silicon-Valley-1940-Present/dp/0984239154 https://www.amazon.com/Peopling-Silicon-Valley-1940-Present/... I read this ages ago and it was good, but it’s 24 years old now: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Silicon-Valley-Entrepreneurial-Paperback/dp/0804737347 https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Silicon-Valley-Entrepre...
- 2devnull 3y agoThe book would be short. The “me generation” takes control, zeroes interest rates after they crash the world economy in 2008. Roll the clock forward 10 years, nimbyism plus importing cheap labor and allowing the housing market to be used as a Ponzi scheme because who cares about younger generations as long as the children of the 60s can buy vanity wineries, and all own multi-million dollar homes, drive corvettes or whatever Biden is ridin.
- cafard 3y agoI'm still waiting on my winery and my Corvette, but maybe that's because I was born in the 1950s.
- supportengineer 3y agoYou had me up until the very end