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It amazes me that alternative solutions are never mentioned:

1) (short term) Make remote work much widely accepted, especially for software roles.

2) (long term) Build offices/centers (e.g.) jobs outside of Bay Area and CA. This is much more scalable and beneficial for the country than having one or two super concentrated centers. Why not have 20?

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I've had a lot of similar thoughts. If VCs here want to tell their startups they have to be here, that's one thing, but I don't see why some of the tech mega-corps don't open more offices with a few hundred positions in places across the country. A few MBA-types I've talked to told me that just won't work but they didn't offer much of an explanation beyond some mumblings about looking for "only the best talent".

Those things aren't bad ideas. However:

Teachers, nurses, janitors, waiters and so on can't work remotely.

Splitting things up that naturally group together likely has some costs. VC's might not want to invest in a startup in, say, Tulsa, OK. I've read that some are changing their minds, and it'll happen some, but clusters do happen for a reason, and fighting that may create some problems.

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