<story><title>Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything</title><url>https://medium.com/@sbuss/software-was-eating-the-world-now-landlords-are-eating-everything-e21ba6802f54</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beamatronic</author><text>Is it really still cool? So much of the authentic character has evaporated away, compared to the mid 90’s. I’m curious what people consider an authentic San Francisco experience in 2019.</text></item><item><author>Vadoff</author><text>People want to live in SF because it&amp;#x27;s cool.&lt;p&gt;A lot of people who work at Facebook and Google would still rather live in SF and commute 2-3 hrs roundtrip each day rather than live in Menlo Park&amp;#x2F;Mountain View (or surrounding cities).&lt;p&gt;Tech companies are going to start where the talent is, and a bulk of that talent want to live in SF.</text></item><item><author>xtiansimon</author><text>Maybe all the tech companies should leave SF for San Jose. It has an airport. And SJ isn’t so precious about it’s history.</text></item><item><author>thorwasdfasdf</author><text>This is a very good point that I wish would get more attention: &amp;quot;Politics is an organizational problem, not a technological one.&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;If we want to lower the cost of living, the cost of housing, the cost of doing business in the Bay Area, tech must get involved in politics.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;People don&amp;#x27;t realize how conservative SF is: &amp;quot;The most innovative solutions don’t matter when your government has been captured by interests that want to freeze the city in amber&amp;quot;   SF won&amp;#x27;t even allow companies to put more buses on the road (something that would benefit everyone!)&lt;p&gt;This was news to me: &amp;quot;Support for More HOMES in San Francisco was even stronger, at 74%. Despite this popular support, every member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to oppose More HOMES, except for Asha Safai and Vallie Brown &amp;quot;  It seems that politics in SF doesn&amp;#x27;t represent the majority view.&lt;p&gt;This is part of a much larger set of problems.  As we continue into the future all the tech problems get solved or already have been solved.  What we&amp;#x27;re left with is all the problems that can&amp;#x27;t be solved: those are all political.  There will come a day when instead of starting software companies, we&amp;#x27;ll be starting companies that solve political problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lozaning</author><text>Even if SF exists purely as a simulacra of it&amp;#x27;s past, cool self, it&amp;#x27;s still leagues ahead anything offered in the south bay.&lt;p&gt;I lived in cupertiuno for 2 years and you could cut off all my fingers and I could still count how many times my friends that live in the city would rain CalTrain south to come visit me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything</title><url>https://medium.com/@sbuss/software-was-eating-the-world-now-landlords-are-eating-everything-e21ba6802f54</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beamatronic</author><text>Is it really still cool? So much of the authentic character has evaporated away, compared to the mid 90’s. I’m curious what people consider an authentic San Francisco experience in 2019.</text></item><item><author>Vadoff</author><text>People want to live in SF because it&amp;#x27;s cool.&lt;p&gt;A lot of people who work at Facebook and Google would still rather live in SF and commute 2-3 hrs roundtrip each day rather than live in Menlo Park&amp;#x2F;Mountain View (or surrounding cities).&lt;p&gt;Tech companies are going to start where the talent is, and a bulk of that talent want to live in SF.</text></item><item><author>xtiansimon</author><text>Maybe all the tech companies should leave SF for San Jose. It has an airport. And SJ isn’t so precious about it’s history.</text></item><item><author>thorwasdfasdf</author><text>This is a very good point that I wish would get more attention: &amp;quot;Politics is an organizational problem, not a technological one.&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;If we want to lower the cost of living, the cost of housing, the cost of doing business in the Bay Area, tech must get involved in politics.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;People don&amp;#x27;t realize how conservative SF is: &amp;quot;The most innovative solutions don’t matter when your government has been captured by interests that want to freeze the city in amber&amp;quot;   SF won&amp;#x27;t even allow companies to put more buses on the road (something that would benefit everyone!)&lt;p&gt;This was news to me: &amp;quot;Support for More HOMES in San Francisco was even stronger, at 74%. Despite this popular support, every member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to oppose More HOMES, except for Asha Safai and Vallie Brown &amp;quot;  It seems that politics in SF doesn&amp;#x27;t represent the majority view.&lt;p&gt;This is part of a much larger set of problems.  As we continue into the future all the tech problems get solved or already have been solved.  What we&amp;#x27;re left with is all the problems that can&amp;#x27;t be solved: those are all political.  There will come a day when instead of starting software companies, we&amp;#x27;ll be starting companies that solve political problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flyinglizard</author><text>Market Street circa 6th to 3rd, thanks for asking. 
What kind of a dysfunctional municipal administration allows this and for what reason?</text></comment>