SF is so expensive that waiters can no longer afford to live in the city
So while housing supply versus demand is what people focus on, the social problem here (people feel like you can only live in SF if you work in tech, and high-paying tech at that) is coming from a weird sort of income inequality.<p>You have both extreme income differences -- an engineer might literally be making 10x what a waiter does -- and also an absurd number of people on the high end.  You don&#x27;t have one or two or a few hundred or a couple thousand people earning an order of magnitude more than the median, you might have a hundred thousand people with incomes an order of magnitude larger than the people below the median.<p>So my question is: is there any research on what we want income distributions to look like?  Would these problems be occurring if engineers made 2x, 5x or 1.25x what waiters did?  Would they be happening if the number of engineers was less than 5%, 10% or 2% of the city&#x27;s housing stock?<p>How would the current parameters have to be tweaked before people who weren&#x27;t earning the top incomes didn&#x27;t feel like they were being left completely behind?