Matthew Tuerk

I think that there's still this belief that we need to preserve the dignity of work, that there's always going to be, that we're going to have to find some way to allow people to continue to work, that there's

Like, maybe you don't need the robots running the whole warehouse, right?

That maybe you need, you know, somebody to be involved.

And we've seen that, like, this is, my first job out of grad school was working in the billboard industry and in Panama.

And I remember vividly talking to somebody who has, you know, I've introduced myself.

This is in my economic development days.

And I was like, oh, you know, I first I started in billboards and the guy was in private equity.

And he was like, that's great, man.

Billboards are awesome.

The only thing better than billboards is coin-op laundromats.

I was like, dude, you're in the wrong business now.

Because like maybe in private equity, like that was a great idea.

Like the fewer and fewer jobs, like down to self-storage, which I think is the worst thing in the city.

Yeah.

But we're job creators.

We have to find ways to create jobs, to create opportunities for people to be dignified by their work.

So while there may be some value to squeezing out every single nickel of cost from some operation, there's a lot to benefit cities and to benefit society of having people actually putting their hands on things.

Yeah, I have lots of sophisticated and unsophisticated thoughts about data centers.

We as a city and as a mayor, I'm thinking about them in a couple of ways.

One, like they're very clearly a political issue now and they're a political issue forever.