If you want to understand the political positions held in Silicon Valley I think you need a understanding of how atrociously SF, the Bay and really all of California have been governed, and how viscerally this affects everyone here.
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So... all true, and yet to me formulations like "people in Silicon Valley" omit the voices and experiences of the ~75% of workers (and obv. 100% of non-workers) who don't work in high tech.
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And even in high-tech, the political and cultural views that get counted are the board members, the CxOs, the VPs, the startup founders. The tens of thousands of developers and other staff grinding away at low-and mid-level tech jobs are almost as invisible.
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I just visited the Bay area a few weeks ago. I think the problems are pretty clear...and they're probably not fixable without destroying the area. There's simply far too many people than the infrastructure/geography can hold, especially if it's for the most part just a suburb.
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San Francisco is half the density of Brooklyn and most of the Bay Area is much less dense than that. There's plenty of room for more people if building homes for them weren't illegal.
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It seems like lack of effective regional governance has to be part of this conversation. Can you govern a metro area of 7+ million people if it’s every county (9+), municipality (100+), or even neighborhood for itself? Excessive state deference to local control exacerbates this.
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Just spent two weeks in sf, berk, oakland. Bike paths rideable, greenery viewable, children sounded happy, mass transit works. It was better under Republicans how exactly?
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Strongly agreed, for whatever that’s worth. Beyond any partisan considerations, single-party unaccountable governance produces corruption and diversion of policy into fantasy. Eventually the bill comes due in widespread alienation.https://mobile.twitter.com/TheAgeofShoddy/status/1188181463365087232 …
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I agree things should be better but I feel like this thread assumes the green lantern theory again but for California. It sounds like you want elected leaders to just try harder but it's not that easy.https://www.vox.com/2014/5/20/5732208/the-green-lantern-theory-of-the-presidency-explained …
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A lot of legal and political flexibility has been hamstrung by various voter initiatives and ballot measures. Reform (at the scale you're talking about) would require going against what the people voted for. Which begs the bigger question, is CA's direct democracy a good thing?
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