>Today, the tech industry is apparently on track to destroy one of the world’s most valuable cultural treasures, San Francisco, by pushing out the diverse peopl

>Today, the tech industry is apparently on track to destroy one of the world’s most valuable cultural treasures, San Francisco, by pushing out the diverse people who have helped create it. At least that’s the story you’ve read in hundreds of articles lately. >It doesn’t have to be this way. But everyone who lives in the Bay Area today needs to accept responsibility for making changes where they live so that everyone who wants to be here, can. I don't know if drastically changing the housing landscape of SF will destroy the culture that made everyone want into the city in the first place, but asserting that it won't is just as tenuous as asserting it will. All I ever see is rationalization that it won't, because the tech community takes it as axiomatic that they must pile into the city. By debating the conclusion we are tricked into accepting the form. For example: "But everyone who lives in the Bay Area today needs to accept responsibility for making changes" That's a lot of people. Including ones hostile to your goals. You would need to get a smaller and friendlier set of people on board to make a slightly-more geographically disperse tech scene work in the Bay Area. The self-fulfilling business "common sense" about SF is much more momentum than sense.