I actually think you can explain a lot of the reactionary turn among VC types and their railing against the “laptop class” in these terms: they have to deal with a workforce that has relatively high amount of leverage over them and knows it, and they fucking hate it.
I KNOW YOU ADMIRE HER, BUT JANE JACOBS WROTE A WHOLE BOOK WITHOUT A CRITICAL ANALYSIS ON HOW RACE OR CLASS AFFECTED PLANNING DECISIONS AT THE TIME. AND LATER BECAME A NIMBY. WE DON'T BLINDLY SUPPORT JANE JACOBS IN THIS JOINT. SHES FLAWED LIKE THE REST OF US.
i feel like if a bunch of people are sitting around a table with phones, they should be able to combine their phones into some kind of larger computer system