Ezra Klein

A lot of the people we're talking about who have made amazing things here, they started in the Bay Area when you could afford to live there. It wasn't always like this. And it wasn't that long ago that it wasn't like this. And now, fine, you can go there if you have money or you have a great job offer from Google or Apple or whomever. But over time, you need the ferment.

A lot of the people we're talking about who have made amazing things here, they started in the Bay Area when you could afford to live there. It wasn't always like this. And it wasn't that long ago that it wasn't like this. And now, fine, you can go there if you have money or you have a great job offer from Google or Apple or whomever. But over time, you need the ferment.

I have a personal interest in reading memoirs and noticing if the memoir is really a housing story. One of the ones I like about this, Moby, the electronic musician, his first memoir, which is great, it's a memoir of a certain era in New York. It's a housing story. He was just living next to a bunch of other musicians in cheap-ass housing.

I have a personal interest in reading memoirs and noticing if the memoir is really a housing story. One of the ones I like about this, Moby, the electronic musician, his first memoir, which is great, it's a memoir of a certain era in New York. It's a housing story. He was just living next to a bunch of other musicians in cheap-ass housing.

I have a personal interest in reading memoirs and noticing if the memoir is really a housing story. One of the ones I like about this, Moby, the electronic musician, his first memoir, which is great, it's a memoir of a certain era in New York. It's a housing story. He was just living next to a bunch of other musicians in cheap-ass housing.

I just read Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzie Goodman, a sort of oral history of the aughts rock revival in New York City, a housing story. They could afford to live here, right? I've read a bunch of these in San Francisco, too, where people just like, they're functionally squatting. Right. Like the San Francisco ferment, its queerness, its openness and tolerance of new ideas.

I just read Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzie Goodman, a sort of oral history of the aughts rock revival in New York City, a housing story. They could afford to live here, right? I've read a bunch of these in San Francisco, too, where people just like, they're functionally squatting. Right. Like the San Francisco ferment, its queerness, its openness and tolerance of new ideas.

I just read Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzie Goodman, a sort of oral history of the aughts rock revival in New York City, a housing story. They could afford to live here, right? I've read a bunch of these in San Francisco, too, where people just like, they're functionally squatting. Right. Like the San Francisco ferment, its queerness, its openness and tolerance of new ideas.

It's sort of like it's home of the psychedelic counterculture that intermixed with the defense culture that created Silicon Valley. Right. You've read probably, is it Frederick Turner's from counterculture to cyberculture? That was a story of cheap housing. You need to allow people to be around each other, to mix each other.

It's sort of like it's home of the psychedelic counterculture that intermixed with the defense culture that created Silicon Valley. Right. You've read probably, is it Frederick Turner's from counterculture to cyberculture? That was a story of cheap housing. You need to allow people to be around each other, to mix each other.

It's sort of like it's home of the psychedelic counterculture that intermixed with the defense culture that created Silicon Valley. Right. You've read probably, is it Frederick Turner's from counterculture to cyberculture? That was a story of cheap housing. You need to allow people to be around each other, to mix each other.

If only one type of person can afford to be there, it becomes a monocultural over time. And so it's not just housing. This is about the geography of economic innovation and opportunity. That's why it's so fucking important.

If only one type of person can afford to be there, it becomes a monocultural over time. And so it's not just housing. This is about the geography of economic innovation and opportunity. That's why it's so fucking important.

If only one type of person can afford to be there, it becomes a monocultural over time. And so it's not just housing. This is about the geography of economic innovation and opportunity. That's why it's so fucking important.

Or by technology. We know how to build apartment buildings.

Or by technology. We know how to build apartment buildings.

Or by technology. We know how to build apartment buildings.

I want to add a wrinkle on regulation and deregulation. So we were talking about coding earlier. Who gets coded is right wing, who gets coded is left wing. Deregulation is a word that is highly coded as right wing. The right wing wants it to deregulate, right? They want the government to stop regulating the market. It's fine. In many cases, the government should deregulate parts of the market.

I want to add a wrinkle on regulation and deregulation. So we were talking about coding earlier. Who gets coded is right wing, who gets coded is left wing. Deregulation is a word that is highly coded as right wing. The right wing wants it to deregulate, right? They want the government to stop regulating the market. It's fine. In many cases, the government should deregulate parts of the market.

I want to add a wrinkle on regulation and deregulation. So we were talking about coding earlier. Who gets coded is right wing, who gets coded is left wing. Deregulation is a word that is highly coded as right wing. The right wing wants it to deregulate, right? They want the government to stop regulating the market. It's fine. In many cases, the government should deregulate parts of the market.