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If we're going to have this exchange again, wouldn't be more fun not to feign ignorance of everything that everyone here has said before on the subject? Asking for a friend.
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Physician, heal thyself.
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Lots of great jobs are being created. They tend to get created in places like the Bay Area, Austin and New York City, rather than places like Allentown, Detroit or New Orleans.
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Okay. I should not have assumed you would assume I was talking nationally.
I was talking nationally. Nationally, tech displaces at a rate many multiples of that at which it creates. It also creates tons of shit "gig" jobs like Uber, Doordash, etc., which are not comparable to real jobs that come with benefits and living wages.
You've ignored mountains of data on those points every time we've had this discussion.
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I have been thinking about this, and I'm not sure it's right. It's one thing to take a well-functioning company and move to a distributed model where everyone works from home. It would be quite another to build a company where people are rarely in the same space together.
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The conversation about whether companies can be incubated or built remotely is a different one than the conversation about existing companies moving to partial work-at-home structures to save money.
I happen to agree with you. You can't start up a company without gluing together a team that works collaboratively, and that requires an office and people working together.
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In the first, you get trade on the relationships and culture that you built. In the second, you have to figure out how to create those things without a lot of good interpersonal contact.
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I don't think you can build a company remotely. (I say this as someone who visited and met the folks at YCombinator back in its Boston days when it was first becoming a juggernaut.)
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It's like moving from the Bay Area/Austin/NYC to Allentown/Detroit/New Orleans. You get to do it once and you get to trade up when you do it, but it doesn't work the other way around.
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How is that a trade up?
ETA: Start-ups will need offices. But as you know from the locations of many incubators, these aren't located in the high rent commercial locations where swanky office "palaces" are found. Sure, once they're well funded, they might get swanky space.
The comm r/e I'm talking about is the super-pricey poorly designed space you find in city centers. The gleaming towers uncreative corporate sorts think they need to occupy to be legitimate.
