Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy

Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by nostrademons on Monday December 07, 2020 @06:56PM (#25339481)

I moved out to Silicon Valley in 2009. Downturns are the best years. They flush out all the folks who are hoping to get rich fast by peddling snake oil, and leave behind the folks who are building, who are inventing, who are a little bit weird, or who just love the beautiful weather. The next tech boom starts when somebody finds a crazy invention useful; that's a lot easier when people are living ordinary lives than when everybody's chasing a hot fad.

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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by jariel on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @01:46AM (#25342598)

I'm sorry but I find this to be a slightly myopic narrative, and a little naive.

Con artists can have a long view of things.

And most people who move are just regular people who lost their jobs.

Frankly, I don't think there's too much space between 'get rich quick' and 'get really rich over a longer period' people.

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