sf is the "some people's purpose in life is just to serve as a warning for others" of cities
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Replying to @alicemazzy
Is it cities fault or companies who choose to set up there? I've a hard time blaming anyone who invests not wanting to protect it.
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I guess any kind of moral argument is arbitrary here, there's no concrete reason why this or that group ought to benefit
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any my position comes rather from a preference for dynamism over stagnation or decay
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it's certainly a fact that artificially restricting housing supply has enormous negative costs on everyone except landholders
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and a city government uncaptured by landed interests would be attempting to accommodate influx of high-paid professionals because...
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...they create demand for a large, relatively stable service caste and the increased tax base provides lot of funding for infrastructure/social spending
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the correct stance for a city government trying to optimize for "good city" wants to collect and build as much as it can during boom times so...
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...as to better weather downturns. I think this will blow up in the face of the landed class, things are getting so bad the tech industry is...
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...dying to move elsewhere. they're kept there because that's still the best talent and VC market but once it passes a tipping point there's no...
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...going back and the city will rot from the inside. property values will fall once they succeed in killing demand
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