OpenAI and Anthropic are ruining San Francisco

City that refuses to build housing and is stacked to the brim with NIMBYs has skyrocketing rents.

SF is the quintessential boom town. Yet every batch of newcomers eventually thinks they have the right to be the last batch of newcomers and get to declare that the city should remain the same forever more, in its current state, perfected by their presence.

Their crime is compensating their employees too well, which this author thinks makes them responsible for higher rental prices?

The other complaint is that the author doesn’t think they see any benefit from all the taxes the companies are paying. Shouldn’t they be taking this up with the city? Companies don’t decide how their taxes are spent.