Bottom line: Situation is complicated, implications are hard to guess, gentrification is a mess, all heroes are villains and vice versa.
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I love this town. Change is inevitable. Gentrification is failure to care for communities in the face of that inevitability. It's violence.
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*Of course* tech companies were always going to move here. *Every* company is a "tech company" in the fullness of time. It's not the 50s.
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It's not useful to decry "tech culture" as the enemy. WE ARE TECH CULTURE. So I try to sweep up my own yard, and advocate for Good.
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@izs: we can manage the increase in density or we can treat it like a crisis (current M.O.). It's a *choice*1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
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@slightlylate Yes, this is ABSOLUTELY a failure of local government, and I suspect you and I are in the most violent of agreements.1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
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@izs: no worries. Just want to make sure@Scott_Wiener,@libbyformayor, and@SFyimby know there's a tech CEO who understands the problem.1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes -
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@slightlylate@scott_wiener@libbyformayor@sfyimby And to be fair: it's not clear to me that it is yet "a failure", per se. We'll see.4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@izs: yes. Yes it is. @sfyimby makes this point compellingly; we're literally connected.
/cc @scott_wiener @libbyformayor
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