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Re:Tech Hubs Are Losing the Talent War to Everywhere Else by sidlls on Saturday December 23, 2023 @01:53PM (#38746905)
"Temporarily embarrassed millionaire"[1] describes this mindset. It is quite prevalent in America's poor. I've seen too many poor Americans exhibit this mentality to not believe it is more or less a truism at this point. The propaganda of the wealthy and connected in this country has been remarkably effective.

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Disputed

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Re:Tech Hubs Are Losing the Talent War to Everywhere Else by JumpCrisscross on Saturday December 23, 2023 @02:45PM (#38747448)
This is related, but different. A lot of San Franciscans have been pitched anti-science bogus economics around development causing higher prices. (It’s not true [1].) They vote against more housing not because they think they’ll soon be rich enough to afford it, but because they’re afraid of getting priced out.

[1] https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/market-rate-development-...

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