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This article sounded reasonable until I got to this:

>Remember Barbara, she of the 70 sub-tenants? She spent 40 years “as a local artist specializing in clay pots and stoneware”. While I’m sure her pots are nice, there may have been better uses for this unit, three blocks from the FiDi, during SF’s finance, legal, and tech booms over the past few decades.

What entitles finance, legal, or tech folk to that apartment over pottery artisanry?

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This article is a classic capitalism propaganda piece.

Pitting wage earners against each other, while the real non contributors are the equity/real estate owners who feel entitled to a huge claim on the Silicon valley technology boom based on their equity purchase/inheritance date.

The primary anger in this piece is that wage earners were able to profit from the Silicon valley boom along with the equity owners. The rent is driven by market rates, not by having the "new renter pay for the old renters" as the article hilariously claims.

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