The Coronavirus Made the Radical Possible
The past year has seen progressive pipe dreams become reality. But can we hold on to what we’ve learned?
By Rachel M. Cohen
March 11, 2021 This article is part of The Week Our Reality Broke, a series reflecting on a year of living with the coronavirus pandemic and how it has affected American society.
Last spring, as a poorly understood virus swept the planet, something remarkable happened: Across the country, all levels of government put in place policies that just a few months earlier would have been seen by most people not to mention most politicians as radical and politically naïve.
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You start to feel stupid : Tech workers can t leave SF fast enough
Nellie Bowles, New York Times
Jan. 16, 2021
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From left: Laura Thompson, Gillian Morris, the founder of the travel app Hitlist who recently fled San Francisco, and Wren Dougherty, who all share a home, in Ocean Park, San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Dec. 15, 2020. As a tech era draws to an end, more workers and companies are packing up. What comes next? (Gabriella N. Baez/The New York Times)Gabriella N. Bez/NYT
SAN FRANCISCO The Bay Area struck a hard bargain with its tech workers.
Rent was astronomical. Taxes were high. Your neighbors didn’t like you. If you lived in San Francisco, you might have commuted an hour south to your job at Apple or Google or Facebook. Or if your office was in the city, maybe it was in a neighborhood with too much street crime, open drug use and $5 coffees.
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