MTV isn't "hostile" to tech. It just got greedy and is trying to get more out of its resident tech companies.
"So we have all these big tech companies opening offices in our town... How do we get more out of them... Let's force their employees to buy their food in local stores by banning free food... Let's tax them a bit more..."
Etc.
This will work in the short term, especially when some of these rules only apply to new offices.
It will fail on the long term, as more and more companies question the wisdom of setting up shops in the Valley and California in general, and move to locations with much lower tax and restrictions, such as Austin TX.
>It will fail on the long term, as more and more companies question the wisdom of setting up shops in the Valley and California in general, and move to locations with much lower tax and restrictions, such as Austin TX.
But that will only last a decade or two before they turn Austin (or wherever) into SF 2.0 and all the business goes elsewhere.
Texas government don't pass intrusive policies ? They literally passed a law that forces women to bury aborted fetus. I mean that is 100x more intrusive than cafeterias
By the time Austin is SF2.0 local government in Austin will be made up of all the same clowns that make up local government in SF. CA was like Texas once upon a time.
> It will fail on the long term, as more and more companies question the wisdom of setting up shops in the Valley and California in general, and move to locations with much lower tax and restrictions, such as Austin TX.
That sounds like a success from the perspective of folks who don't want their suburb to turn into SF or Manhattan?
If they don't want their suburb to turn into SF or Manhattan, then they're definitely taking the wrong turn by introducing this legislation.
Instead of a suburban office location, they are actively encouraging urbanization: more restaurants, more commercial spaces in general, more residents.
Moreover, all these tech campuses represent the majority of the richest residents of suburbs like MTV, and the main reason they are rich and have good schools etc. It would be very odd if the community as a whole wanted all that gone, especially when techies are a large part of the community.
Finally, if MTV wanted to repel tech, there are much more effective ways to do that with legislation. For example, they could apply the legislation to existing offices.
So no, I don't believe this is part of some campaign to avert MTV turning into "Manhattan", which is not something that can happen in the foreseeable future anyway.
"So we have all these big tech companies opening offices in our town... How do we get more out of them... Let's force their employees to buy their food in local stores by banning free food... Let's tax them a bit more..."
Etc.
This will work in the short term, especially when some of these rules only apply to new offices.
It will fail on the long term, as more and more companies question the wisdom of setting up shops in the Valley and California in general, and move to locations with much lower tax and restrictions, such as Austin TX.