(Yes, there are capital expenditures happening that are quite visible but do we really need an extension of the slow T-line to Fishermans Wharf?)
[1] - http://sfmayor.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/mayor/budget/SF_Budget_...
Q: How many sandwiches and burritos must one deliver to pay rent in the Bay Area? How many of those people that have been requesting said sandwiches and burritos will be laid off, move away or reduce discretionary spending?
A: many.
> All the folks working in a service industry that exists only to service tech workers are going to have a very, very hard time.
"Only to service tech workers" - are you kidding? You sound like the aristocracy from Downton Abbey: "Thank god we exist to give all the peasants jobs to do."
If anything, the service industry would arguably be better without them, instead of service startups attempting to illegally classify workers as 1099 contractors in order to be more attractive financially to VCs expecting insane growth.
The other place I've seen this defense used regularly is in South Asia. People treat their servants and house workers really poorly there, and then the defense is 'sureee, they may be given the same food as we give our dogs and cats, but they would be DYINGGG of thirst and hunger in their villages without us.' Fortunately for most South Asians, more and more people are getting out of the situation where they are pretty much bonded laborers.
It seems to me that things are going in the opposite direction in the US. I have a lot to thank the US for personally, but sometimes, I get this intense emotion of schadenfreude. The increasing wealth gap, the increasing racial hostilities, outright hate for anyone who doesn't happen to be in the 'in-group'. As an American, I would be terribly terrified. As a non American I am sometimes all 'HAA, you acted if you were above everything else, as if you were post-history. Now YOU bear the baggage of history the others have had to overcome'.
My favorite are the techie-engineer-objective types. The HN Bros. I've been told over and over and over again how "history is over" and "nothing in history matters anymore because technology" and "context doesn't matter because not we have the means to establish absolute truth". Like literally. When you value technology over people, the process over the end goal, things will break. And they seem to be breaking. I am secretly glad, even though I am myself a part of this env, and might lose my livelihood too if things go South.
...Relevant to the article because it was meant to reflect how things seem to be for people outside the core bubble.
Don't overestimate your importance. The world will move on without you.
The vast majority of people i've talked to think SF was a craphole 25 years ago. I think a lot of people have the golden age fallacy going on :)
Let's see, I've been in the area for 40 years and your comment couldn't be more wrong or uninformed.
http://www.salon.com/1999/11/03/sf/
(I remember it because I had just moved to SF from Chicago, again, when it was published).
You are welcome to disagree with it of course.
But, again, based on what i have, i suspect you may be in the minority.
Time will tell, of course!
It seems you just violently disagree, but that doesn't make you right. It just makes you a data point in the other direction.
First, you assumptively respond as if 'DannyBee doesn't have any data, because you dispute the provenance of his data. But there's a difference between "I agree with the validity of your data" and "you knowingly are arguing without evidence".
Then, you pointlessly barb him about the selectivity of his memory.
Finally, you deploy the classic message-board-jerk "nice work" rhetoric, which exists solely in order to inform the person you're talking to that you don't respect what they're writing.
That's a lot of rudeness to pack into such a lightweight comment.
A writer with exactly the same information trying to persuade people of the exact same position could accomplish what you've accomplished so far with just the words:
"I don't agree with you".
There's nothing pointless or "barbing" (another word attempting to rhetorically paint my position) about my selective memory comment. I simply do not believe he talked to 200 people who all said SF sucked in the past. I truly think that he's leaving out people who believe otherwise.
And it's not a controversial or "rude" opinion to say anecdotes are not data.
Another person I read religious is 'dang, whose comments are the informal moderator log of HN.
And why I'm saying this to you is, pretty much everyone that gets called out for incivility on HN deploys the argument you just did: "my incivility was justified by the comment that preceded it".
I'm not persuaded.
You asked!
So here we are. :-)
Truth be told, I kinda see that to my advantage, since I like to think it lets me see truths others miss when they're expressed in an uncivil manner.
Anyway, the other reason I know your id is that you're working to transform the very broken world of tech hiring, and I most sincerely wish you the best there.
Interesting. It's good to know it's an objective fact with only one possible answer.
Do so.