Re:The American dream is on life support in the Bay Area
by nradov on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @08:57AM
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A better option would be to set government policies that encourage growth of high paying jobs in other areas instead of cramming everyone into one geographically constrained area.
Re:The American dream is on life support in the Bay Area
by thephyber on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @03:50PM
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Kansas already has an incredibly low tax rate and is ostensibly very “pro-business”. Those conditions already exist.
Those conditions are insufficient to cause the effect you think they should.
Re:The American dream is on life support in the Bay Area
by nradov on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @04:06PM
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Yes based on the history of Silicon Valley other factors are also important. Some of those include: proximity to multiple high-quality research universities, laws that generally prohibit employee non-compete agreements, and generous funding through military-industrial complex contracts.
You can’t wish away the fact that SFBA has lots of high paying jobs and attracts lots of people from around the country and around the world. The people are already here. All your mentality is doing is dragging any potential remedy out so it takes longer and costs more. You are applying a Heckler’s Veto.
We might as well increase QoL for everyone who actually lives here (and those who are likely to move here in the immediate future), not some idealistic memory of how some of the metro area used to be 30 years ago.