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Re:Bus Drivers Working in Silicon Valley Struggle to Afford ... by jimmywanger on Sunday January 15, 2017 @12:59AM (#13402599)
> what tech companies have done to housing prices

Tech companies haven't done anything to housing prices. It's people who are convinced that housing is an investment instead of a highly leveraged depreciating asset that block new construction, changing of existing zoning laws, and drive housing prices up.

People in any sort of jobs struggle to survive everywhere. What's your point?

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Re:Bus Drivers Working in Silicon Valley Struggle to Afford ... by ikeyany on Monday January 16, 2017 @05:34AM (#13409257)
> It's people who are convinced that housing is an investment

Our society is structed such that it is a convincing argument. If tech companies aren't at fault, how are citizens who are doing what they can to get by in this cut-throat world at fault?

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