> Yet it is undeniable that – just like being an actor in LA or an investment banker in New York
This is what I object to: the comparison to acting or investment banking tends to exaggerate the centralization of tech jobs.
If you want to be in a film and aren't in LA then you don't really want to be in a film, because a solid majority of the jobs are there. I imagine the same is true for investment banking and New York.
San Jose and San Francisco, on the other hand, represented ~180k of the nation's ~1650k software developers in 2023 [0]. That's ~10% of all US-based software developers and about 0.6% of all software developers in the world [1]. Not a tiny percentage, but nowhere close to Hollywood's dominance in film.
This is what I object to: the comparison to acting or investment banking tends to exaggerate the centralization of tech jobs.
If you want to be in a film and aren't in LA then you don't really want to be in a film, because a solid majority of the jobs are there. I imagine the same is true for investment banking and New York.
San Jose and San Francisco, on the other hand, represented ~180k of the nation's ~1650k software developers in 2023 [0]. That's ~10% of all US-based software developers and about 0.6% of all software developers in the world [1]. Not a tiny percentage, but nowhere close to Hollywood's dominance in film.
[0] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-many-software-developers-...