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This is not necessarily a bad thing. The Bay Area used to be a nice place for regular people to live. The successive waves of tech booms kind of ruined that and average quality of life has gone down for everyone except the very wealthy.

For our country as a whole it was never healthy to have so much of the tech industry concentrated in one small geographic area. We'll be better off in the long run to distribute it more widely, even if that makes it a bit harder to form a startup and recruit local employees.

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Yes, some of the artists can move back in when rent dips 50% for a little bit.

That seemed to be a goto point for anyone that was in San Francisco in the 90s.

“There used to be so many artists in this formerly horrible neighborhood, it was awesome!” Perplexing, but they’re right, this transplant would have never come there as nothing would have been moderately appealing about it to me.

Detroit has artists too. So doesnt seem like the strongest argument.

The truth about the artists argument is that all the people lamenting the loss of the artists are the groupies. I know because up in the Oakland hills my friends throw creative parties with art and music and eclectic talks.

But to the groupies, it appears the artists have gone. And that’s because in the mop-geek-sociopath trichotomy, the groupies are the mops. The geeks have hidden themselves from the mops because the latter are creative leeches.

So if you don’t know where the artists have gone, it’s because they went to get away from you.

lol I love this, but that’s not really the point, The people complaining are not confused where they’ve gone, they are annoyed that they aren’t in San Francisco city limits, not at the artist commune in Oakland serving to remind us why fire codes were invented

> And that’s because in the mop-geek-sociopath trichotomy

For anyone else who needed a reference for this bit: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

And getting some hispanic immigrants back into The Mission would be incredible. I've watched too many good places close down to gentrification

The killing of Alex Nieto I think got the point across

I read everything I could about that, and yeah I would have gotten out of there as fast as I could

It was the most obvious sign to me that the society there simply is too incongruent to work

Transplant that wasnt even supposed to be there calls cops on a licensed security guard eating in the park who had legally had a holstered taser on, transplant watches behind the bushes as the state hit squad pulls up on the guy in the fog and shoots him without question due to his uniform being “gang colors”. All while the transplant is texting trayvon martin references to his buddy about how he was looking for an excuse to handle this himself if he was in another state, and then winds up dodging police bullets while on the phone with 911. All cops acquitted.

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