2. Realize that not everybody in the world needs to or should live in the Bay Area/Hollywood.
3. Don't pass statewide laws catering primarily to the group of people aspiring to do so.
Take your "I've got mine so screw everyone else" attitude out of the bay area, we don't have room here for people with so little empathy for their neighbors.
This law is not targeted at SF per-se because SF already has strong rental protections, this law offers the bare minimum of protection for everyone in the state. The bay area should, and must, pass stronger protections than this statewide law.
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If you can't afford to live in a box in San Jose, obviously staying isn't an option either.
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"Take your "I've got mine so screw everyone else" attitude out of the bay area, we don't have room here for people with so little empathy for their neighbors."
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Oh I don't live in the Bay Area. Theres an entire nation outside of San Francisco, large parts of which are better than the bay area in every objective fashion other than this weird cult obsession with having to live in the poop filled streets of Silicon Valley.
Excluding people from work in productive areas perpetuates poverty.
But that labour productivity (eg measured in salaries the market can bear) differs so much is a fact. Whether we like it or not.
That puzzle is mostly about productivity differences for tech workers. For the baristas in the Bay Area relatively standard explanations like the Baumol effect do most of the explanatory work.
Entitlement was never a core tenant (no pun intended) of the American dream.
