What are tech companies going to do when customers go an increasing amount of years between purchases?

Ignore them and continue selling almost exclusively to businesses and manufacturers?

People move to Seattle -> rents go up -> density push to fit all these people

There’s certainly wrong ways to do anything, but I don’t think there’s a right way to make “less dense” handle “more people want to live here.” Those are just opposites.

I would expect more nearby residents makes the business rents go up, (more demand) and more nearby commercial space makes the business rents go down, (more supply) so ideally there would be some kind of reasonable balance between these things.

What we’re actually seeing is skyrocketing demand and skyrocketing rents for just every kind of real estate so clearly this is not happening.

Please don’t mistake me for somebody with deep knowledge of the subject; I’m just a loudmouth on the internet.

What I’m arguing against is the idea that densification makes business unaffordable and we’d all have more interesting restaurants nearby if we just made everyone keep buying their own single family home with a yard. Even I can tell that that’s an asinine position.

If they do the density right, then rents should come down not go up. More places built to live and have shops means (assuming there is demand fill them, which there certainly seems to be) we should have cheaper rents for each space AND more total revenue for all the landlords AND more variety in nearby shops for all the people living there.

The problem in Seattle is exactly that they are fucking NOT increasing the density of housing and especially of street-level commercial, not nearly fast enough to keep up with all the people moving there.

Lots of talk, more action needed.

That sounds lovely. I wish our planners did it that way.

those jobs just pivoted

How many car jobs are there now compared to however many horse jobs there used to be?

I feel like it’s many many fewer jobs, and the horse jobs did more of a disappearance than a pivot. But I don’t know it.

Does anyone here have data?

Motherfucker I am still humming a jingle sometimes for a tooth powder ad for a company that went out of business before I was born, because my mother used to randomly sing it around the house when I was small.

That shit is pernicious.

Congratulations on your finely-developed ability to filter which of your perceptions advance to memory but I will pick up and remember just any random thing and it sticks

I already could never ignore that shit, that’s why I’m so thorough and motivated about scrubbing ads from my life.