What if—I’m just spitballing here—we rezoned SF and the Valley for tons of new housing, and built a world class transit system for both by taxing tech companies who use the city as a bedroom community?
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What if - I'm just spitballing here - we bar new office development and reduce office square footage so SV and SF companies take remote options seriously, and jobs disperse until residential/commercial balance is achieved? (And build transit too.)
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Okay, so you're saying that you're going to raise the cost of living and working here. It will definitely work. But who is going to be affected *more* by that: tech companies or everyone else? Who do you think will get displaced first?
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How do you get to that from what I said?
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Not you - what I mean is that
@simonstl's proposal, the NIMBY solution, is equivalent to saying that one can drive out the rich by making things expensive.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
Oh I see! I missed the interstitial reply; completely agree
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