As a Detroiter I'm curios to hear why you think Detroit went the way it did.
Many of the suburbs developed their own economies, which further encouraged people to move there instead of Detroit proper.
Lots of racism played its part in various ways. Lots of room to debate the precise degree, though the debate is probably not helpful at this point.
These days the high taxes (property and income) and auto insurance rates are big problems.
Only a few of these really apply to SF. Though the arrogance of assuming the good times will roll on forever seems accurate.
Like San Francisco?
Though if you can convince me that Salesforce and Autodesk are meaningfully in the same industry as Spring and LendingClub, I'm all ears.
Salesforce: https://salesforce.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career_Sit...
Autodesk: https://autodesk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Ext/2/refreshFacet/31...
VMWare (which owns Spring): https://careers.vmware.com/main/jobs?page=1&country=USA&stat...
LendingClub: https://lendingclub.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/0/refresh...
Sr. Release Engineer/Build Engineer, Director of Data Initiatives, Sr Staff Engineer Cloud/Saas Security, Sr Product Designer...
If everyone is doing web/mobile development and they suddenly realize that web/mobile development doesn't need to be done in a 2-square-mile area...
Do you think it's possible that this might not be quite the same as being in the same market and thus being a direct commercial competitor for a company's offerings? Otherwise every company is in the Human Resources and Accounting industries. Perhaps the companies in question are not in commercial competition with one another, and only competing for a certain set of skilled technicians? Do you think the point imtringued made about downstream suppliers might be relevant?
Again, you're completely right. There genuinely is a lot of overlap in titles and skills sought! It just might perhaps be possible that this is not quite the same as all companies concerned being in the same industry. Or perhaps I am wildly wrong! Can you help me with where I might have erred?
The question of how one chooses to define an industry quite aside, the degree to which San Francisco's employment depends on "tech" is easy to overstate. Based on news and this website, you would think it was a third to a half of SF jobs. While an easy and completely understandable conclusion to draw, this would be a dramatic overstatement.
What do you expect to happen to San Francisco if it loses its "tech mecca" status? Will the financial sector or the tourism sector supply enough high-paying jobs to make up the difference, or will the money drying up cascade down through the service industries?
Detroit's problem was that automotive production was and is a single sector. This is not true of "tech", as shown by a random sampling of companies being in wildly different economic sectors.
I hope this is better! Thank you for the chance to improve my communications skills. Have a nice day.
If, hypothetically, all the issues with having development teams cheap parts of the world went away, that would impact almost all of tech. It hasn't happened yet, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility.
Unrelated, but I've always found it interesting how people try to avoid appearing like they're actually invested in the conversation they're having and the effect the results have on them.
"I'm not here to exchange ideas and make my understanding of the world better, no, I'm just here to improve my communication skills and I want you to know that!"
I understand the need for self-preservation, but going to this length of lying to yourself and observers to defend your ego is amusing in my opinion.
It's the difference between "I failed to be understandable" and "You failed to understand". With the former, they can come back and say that since I've clarified so helpfully, they agree with me without impugning their previous position. The latter allows no such latitude.
It also shows that you have no humility and can't accept that you might be wrong. That's what I'm trying to say.
> It's the difference between "I failed to be understandable" and "You failed to understand".
You can't even imagine a situation where the other party in the discussion understands your perspective but simply disagrees?
> It sometimes helps remove a person's ego as an obstacle.
Start with yourself.
You can build tech for car manufacturers, you can build tech for taxi companies, you can build tech for restaurants, you can build tech for any industry.