I honestly understand why there’s a rift between tech people and everyone else in SF. Tech wishes it could turn this place into some clean, orderly, perfect techno-utopia but SF is fundamentally not that.

SF is a complicated, confused, crazy city that will always be trying to figure out what it is and what it wants to be (just like the people in it), but that’s the whole point. Tech looks at SF as if they’re missionaries coming to preach to a remote tribe and “show them the way”. They assume they know the city wants things one way because its the way they want things.

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Yeah Balaji is the perfect example of everything wrong with tech

yep

balaji's ethnically cleansed out of SF thing however misquoted that he was is a good example

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And a good portion of the ones who make their money in tech leave to spend it elsewhere

Tech ppl need to blend in the crowd and stop trying to turn SF to a tech city. NYC is not ran by Wall-Street, LA is not ran by Hollywood.

Also, Tech gets a bad rap because the locals don’t benefit much from the industry. It will be different if everyone in the Bay Area knows someone who works in Tech, but unfortunately by nature, Tech has very fee opportunities for blue collar work, except for the facilities. Even something like IT, the amount of jobs is not enough to satisfy the locals. The best cities have industry’s that is very generous to the city.