I have to say that I didn&#x27;t really understand the perspective the writer was coming from. It kind of felt like he just wanted to finger wag at SF.<p>&gt; Everything is too expensive.<p>Just normal supply and demand economics. This happens all the time all over the world when lots of high earning people suddenly move to an area.<p>&gt; There are thousands of dumb startups.<p>Yup. And most of them will die. And some of them will become AirBnB. The problem is, it&#x27;s extremely difficult to predict which is which. That&#x27;s just the nature of searching for &quot;the next big thing&quot;. I&#x27;d rather live in a world where there are lots of dumb companies so that the few exceptional ones have a chance to get started.<p>&gt; People are spoiled.<p>No, people in SF value their time, as it&#x27;s the only resource you can&#x27;t get more of. I absolutely understand why someone with the money would have groceries deliver for them. It&#x27;s more efficient. The locally sourced and organic thing does feel a bit silly though, although I would say that&#x27;s a fad you see everywhere.<p>&gt; There cannot be these many quality engineers.<p>I&#x27;m sure there are some bad engineers there. But SF has a massive pool for exceptional talent, and while I&#x27;m sure not every engineer is extremely high quality, I have no doubt that a substantial amount of top tier programmers are in SF. If the majority of programmers weren&#x27;t making meaningful contributions to their companies, I don&#x27;t think you would see them being compensated the way they are.