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Most people sustain themselves using the money they get in exchange for their labor. Based on history and growing income inequality, no one seems to believe the next step is a Star Trek-like post-scarcity economy.
The "how will people afford X??" is an existential question. If human labor has no value and UBI is not an option, then what is going to happen to the people?
Your link and quote does not support this specific claim. The law linked is about naturalization and not about being granted permanent resident status.
You took 500,000 workers from across the entire state and then picked a single company's expenses. The old wages for those 500,000 people at $16/h and your 1560h/y estimate would already be over $12bn.
This is not at all the point made by the author. The finger is being pointed at regulations which prevent increasing the supply in housing driven by NIMBYism. The article points out that the crisis dates back to the 80s - predating not just the current tech explosion but also the dotcom boom. Knowledge workers are not just programmers.
> Other cities with harsher climates have less homeless people because they can't survive the winters homeless, but that's ignored in this article.
The article does not ignore but explicitly addresses your point ("[...] With similar reasoning, we can reject the idea that climate explains varying rates of homelessness. [...]") and brings high rates of homelessness in cities with harsh winter climates: Seattle, NYC, and Boston.
> There is more nuance to homelessness than "tech workers make too much money"
What you wrote has nothing to do with what's actually in the article.
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