Sorry to be blunt, but you are delusional.

ame gentrification fight that has been fought against them over the past several years, …he next couple years mirrors the growth from the most recent tech boom. This means that even though many of my colleagues have incomes in the top few percent of the general American population, they may find themselves fighting the same gentrification fight that has been fought against them over the past several years, no longer able to afford to live near the city they work. Massive capital flows are like a weather system and tend to overpower even multi-hundred billion do…

Why I am leaving Google for blockchain endeavors

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Sorry to be blunt, but you are delusional. It takes much more to make Googlers “unable to afford to live” in San Francisco. Come on.

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