Mason 🏃‍♂️✂️ on Twitter: "SF lives or dies on its ability to draw top tier talent that could go anywhere. Yet amidst the country's worst housing crisis & a shocking level of property crime, filth + visible drug use, the city seems sworn to demonize & hamstring its own tax base https://t.co/cVOwW3PAfm"

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SF lives or dies on its ability to draw top tier talent that could go anywhere. Yet amidst the country's worst housing crisis & a shocking level of property crime, filth + visible drug use, the city seems sworn to demonize & hamstring its own tax basehttps://twitter.com/thejuliamerz/status/1182690217263816706 …

Julia Merz @thejuliamerz

Replying to @webdevMason

I've felt this too. At some point in the last few months the cw became that the city is dying, from an automatic-epicenter-of-tech perspective. Most of the best people I know have exit plans.

10:23 AM - 11 Oct 2019

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1. The End Times‏ @TheAgeofShoddy 11 Oct 2019
  
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  There is a deeply poisonous interaction between essentially irresponsible single-party local government, and a major industry whose only options for change become either extensive lobbying and corruption, or else exit. A not-dissimilar dynamic to NYC and Wall Street in some ways.
  
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1. Dmitriy Mandel aka Schnitzel ‏ @mndl_nyc 11 Oct 2019
  
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  I always thought making non-competes illegal gave California an important advantage with regard to tech employers. So maybe these businesses move, but not very far.
  
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1. Mase‏ @masegraye 11 Oct 2019
  
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  Aside: always so weird to me that a town full of people ‘disrupting’ industries through tech hasn’t figured out how to achieve the same effect working remotely. They/we can literally invent the future of distributed companies, and live anywhere.
  
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1. Brian Gordon‏ @GordonBrianR 11 Oct 2019
  
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  This weeks rolling blackouts really felt like the last straw. Completely dysfunctional.
  
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1. Basil Marte‏ @BasilMarte 12 Oct 2019
  
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  Take two groups that are easy to differentiate. Make one the numerical majority by far, make the other create/have/capture disproportionately much productivity/wealth/income by intellect, and put them in a single area. Call them, respectively, Hutu and Tutsi, or gentiles and...
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1. Nick‏ @ysoh 12 Oct 2019
  
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  Which side do you see capitulating first?
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1. Yvonne Leow‏ @YvonneLeow 12 Oct 2019
  
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  FWIW, here's how you can publicly comment on the ordinance, which hasn't actually passed yet.https://twitter.com/YvonneLeow/status/1183231713843077122?s=20 …
  
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  SFists, if you've seen this article making the rounds and you have an opinion about it, here are some steps to consider: https://www.kqed.org/news/11778738/new-s-f-office-could-curb-reckless-rollouts-of-emerging-tech …
  
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