Every time someone says "don't worry, the big companies won't leave" due to e.g. SF's increasingly insane regulatory structure, start-ups should be hearing the silent "...but they'd be crazy to *start* here" at the end
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Shouldn't underestimate the ludicrous advantages bestowed on the extant Schelling point in an industry where you can scale almost arbitrarily with capital & are generally bottlenecked by the talent pool, but SF is determined to keep raising the pot for someone to dethrone it
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From the perspective of human well-being, distributing what is currently very heavily concentrated in the bay area to the rest of the country is probably net good. But, SF probably wouldn't view it that way once the tax revenue begins shifting to "anywhere but here".
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There are massive productivity/growth advantages to having concentrated specialized talent pools & to having competitive capital rather than dispersed benefactor-fiefdoms — this is both why SF is still winning & why *somebody* should win
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Schenzen has already started to
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SF is a no go zone at this point. Sure, talent exists here, but the progressive culture and it's verboten harms goes unchecked. Find a different city with wholesome people, traditional values and today's skills
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