Re:Silicon Valley’s engineering salaries are finally getting...
by gjm11 on Sunday February 05, 2012 @06:58AM
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> I think companies should do something really crazy. They should go and develop a new area [...]
If they do that and it succeeds at all, here is what will quickly happen.
1. The area will be full of smart well paid people, and will be a place where those people want to live. House prices and rents will go up.
2. Since it was aimed at engineers, and prices are (now) expensive, it will tend to be occupied largely by engineers and other highly-paid people. Which, society being what it presently is, will lead to the same sort of sex ratio as you see in Silicon Valley.
End result: just one more SV-like area. And that's if it works, which it probably won't. (It's very easy to say that "companies should" develop an area with sunny weather and a balanced gender ratio and neighbours who are good at other stuff and willing to share their knowledge -- but not so easy to do it.)
If they do that and it succeeds at all, here is what will quickly happen.
1. The area will be full of smart well paid people, and will be a place where those people want to live. House prices and rents will go up.
2. Since it was aimed at engineers, and prices are (now) expensive, it will tend to be occupied largely by engineers and other highly-paid people. Which, society being what it presently is, will lead to the same sort of sex ratio as you see in Silicon Valley.
End result: just one more SV-like area. And that's if it works, which it probably won't. (It's very easy to say that "companies should" develop an area with sunny weather and a balanced gender ratio and neighbours who are good at other stuff and willing to share their knowledge -- but not so easy to do it.)