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I think your anger is misguided. Those web 2.0 arent happy about the exorbitant rent either, nor are they the primary beneficiaries. That would be the native SF'ers/homeowners that were here before the boom (and who are still paying $25 a month in property taxes while collecting $5k in rent due to Prop 13).

SF's budget has more than doubled in the past 10 years. For example, the city budget increased >$400mm from just higher property taxes in 2019 alone. https://sfassessor.org/news/strength-property-tax-helps-sf-r...

Actually SF was really inexpensive when I moved there in 1993.

Apart from that I enjoyed your rant. :-)

That is a strange definition of parasitic - having a claim to it other than whose vagina they exited.