Sunday, November 23, 2014

Climateer Line of the Day: Everybody Hates Silicon Valley Edition

Today's winner of the prestigious CLoD:
“Fuck, I wish the Mission would just gentrify faster,” a 20-something acquaintance recently said to me, complaining about the bar scene in San Francisco’s artsy Mission District. “I’m not trying to step over a homeless guy just to pay $14 for a drink, you know?” 
That's from The Kernel and although the Mission District is 50 miles up the peninsula from San Jose the quote nails the zeitgeist. Here's the story:
The hidden cost of the on-demand economy
part of the Kernel's Everybody Hates Silicon Valley series.