It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town

Re:It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town by michaelt on Friday February 22, 2019 @09:51AM (#19225765)

  My shock is the dual narrative on "tech pays too much --
  down with tech" "tech pays too little -- down with tech."
  This reeks of false excuses

If my office was 35 Fahrenheit in the mornings and 100 Fahrenheit in the afternoon, would I be justified in complaining it was both too hot and too cold?

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Re:It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town by TuringNYC on Friday February 22, 2019 @10:29AM (#19226106)

I get the spirit of your argument...and probably there is a "right" temperature. But what is the "right" salary -- if ~$150k is too high, what salary should Amazon give to their workers? Who decides? Should they also cut benefits just as an added way to reduce gentrification? What happens when someone gets promoted...do they get fired because their salary is too high now?

I understand the issue of gentrification is real. But this is the first time I've heard a progressive argument against good paying good benefits jobs -- usually the argument is that jobs don't pay enough and the benefits are too little (that can be regulated.)

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