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I would guess that Uber is a good example.

We do pay people to go to school already, there are a multitude of retraining programs available for older workers. But as in this article I think the people in question are the reason for these programs not working, the one factory worker in this article didn't like school so he stopped going and went on disability. With that kind of attitude it's going to be hard to help people.

Every time these disruptions happen people said we had hit a tipping point and it was going to be different this time. Not sure how this time is different.

They are not necessarily related. Information symmetry just means that both parties know exactly the same information and neither knows more or less than the other. In a scenario where one or both parties have information that is not accessible to the other they can still engage in a trade in which each party, at least believes, it is better off given their information. A neutral/third-party observer may not come to the same conclusion but that is not relevant to this scenario.

You can get to SFO for less than $20 provided you're willing to use a shuttle/van service. The premium is for a private ride that is direct to the airport. So it's definitely possible to get these types of services cheap you just can't expect the same level of quality as Uber say.

Fyi, I believe this is actually a gay couple given the author's name is Peter and his partner is named Danny.

Not sure where you get this idea that one cannot live in San Francisco/Silicon Valley without a six figure salary. Thousands of people live in San Francisco and do not work in tech and surely make much less than six figures while still live relatively well.

Can you point to data corroborating your statement that universities are supplying a growing number of STEM graduates?

And the inadequate amount of housing availability is because of government regulation as well. If they would allow more building this would be less of an issue.

Depends on what you count as launch but BufferBox has been running at the University of Waterloo for a couple of years already.

Nice site! One minor issue is the main search box; for me it is completely empty and I have no idea what I'm supposed to type into the box.

I would counter that in fact the US Government is the biggest of the problems. All of those other actors fall under the law and are much more likely to be punished for their actions whereas the US Govt doesn't have to obey any laws and constantly finds ways around the existing protections, National Security Letters as just one example.

Are you writing this comment from 2008? Both LNKD and FB have robust revenue streams that are growing; they have figured out how to monetize their products and they are doing it quite well.