kLeeIsDead

This is just..... wow. It's like you're talking to a wall.

I think I'm done contributing to this site. Thank you for showing me the light.

Whoops. I probably should have proofread my comment before submitting. Your response seems almost nonsensical now that I've butchered my original post D: Sorry about that.

Am I missing something here? Paying $1000/mo rent for a remote space seems insane. At best, that's 15% of your take-home salary. You're basically forcing yourself to work 15% more than you would without an office.

I'd take the extra 15% of free time over the hit in the "socialness" of my office space. I can get that social fix during that time instead.

Uh..... I don't disagree with you, but you're responding to something I didn't even say....

One could dismiss your 7-phase plan with a similar argument.

Heh, the web. The only platform where it's considered normal to use elaborate workarounds for problems that have been solved decades ago

so..... if 200 people decide to stay (out of the millions that left), then you're right and i'm wrong. guess i can't argue with that logic.

> One could claim that in a true dystopia the rich would just make it so insufferable that the poor leave as economic refugees.

that is literally happening right now.

This is a pretty bad attitude to have.

This is a very misinformed opinion.

Over the years I've noticed the south bay culture spreading up to SF and Oakland, and down to Santa Cruz. They haven't been hit as bad as Palo Alto and San Jose, but I'm afraid that the culture will continue to spread as long as the software industry continues to be lucrative (and other industries become less so).