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0 pointsBobbyJo2y ago0 comments

You can't buy a crappy house for less than 1mil in SV. The hackers are all on corporate payrolls.

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You sure it isn’t because they just grew up, like the hippies?

I'd love to be free to hack on interesting things. If I didn't have to spend so much on housing, I'd have more freedom. Of course, there are also tradeoffs in that, in the sense that I do not want to live in Cyanide Springs, Oklahoma just to have cheap housing...

shuckles2y ago

It seems like there is a tendency to become occupied with obligations as you age, regardless of exactly how the discretionary time / money is eaten up.

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BobbyJoOP2y ago

By "grow up" do you mean "coalesce"? If so, that's exactly what I'm saying.

shuckles2y ago

The hippies suited up without expensive housing as a forcing factor. We may agree on what happened, but I disagree with you about why.

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shuckles2y ago

You sure it isn’t because they just grew up, like the hippies?

davidw2y ago

shuckles2y ago

It seems like there is a tendency to become occupied with obligations as you age, regardless of exactly how the discretionary time / money is eaten up.

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BobbyJoOP2y ago

By "grow up" do you mean "coalesce"? If so, that's exactly what I'm saying.

shuckles2y ago

The hippies suited up without expensive housing as a forcing factor. We may agree on what happened, but I disagree with you about why.

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