[exstudent]

Sure you're drinking your VOSS but can you afford a home in SF? I would say it's a middle class aspiration to raise a family near your work. You'd be in for an "insane commute" if you had 3 kids and tried to work in the valley.

Engineer's pay pales in comparison to the value they create. That's an issue.

Average office drone X probably shouldn't even have a job so yeah, they shouldn't expect to get paid as much as a developer at Google.

[cscurmudgeon]

Ask your politicians to remove artificial building restrictions which are helping only the landlords.

[exstudent]

I agree that's a good idea but in the context of this story...

Who lives in this ultra expensive real estate? The execs stiffing the developers on pay while making bank on their work.

[cscurmudgeon]

My point is that it is not the execs fault for it being expensive. There is an artificial limit on supply. If supply is kept low, the producers (the landlords) usually benefit at the expense of poorer consumers.

[exstudent]

I agree with the real estate issue.

My point is that people CAN afford to live in these places and those people built their fortunes on the back of a labor supply with artificially suppressed wages.