Meet San Franciscos permanent underclass and the ones who think they still have a shot
News Source : Business Insider
News Summary
- The cost of living in San Francisco has skyrocketed due to the city's AI boom.
- High salaries offered by AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Thinking Machines Lab, Cognition, and Databricks are creating a concentration of wealth.
- Small-business owners and workers outside the tech sphere feel that life in the city has become an exclusive party they can't afford to get into.
- "I definitely feel like I am living like a college student, not an adult," Kacie Barrett, 26, said.
Halfway through our interview with Kacie Barrett, a 26yearold project manager in San Francisco, her screen froze.
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