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It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. -Charles Dickens from A Tale of Two Cities For people who spend most of their days within a few blocks of tech start-up epicenters such as South Park in San Francisco, University Avenue in Palo Alto or the Flatiron district in New York, last week’s jobs report must have created some cognitive dissonance. After all, we’re in a boom/bubble right? It’s really hard to hire good people isn’t it? The number of unemployed now eclipses 14 million nationwide. Which bring us to an important question: Should Silicon Valley (and other tech clusters throughout the country) care?
On one hand, a thriving tech sector is a beacon of hope for America and perhaps one of a shrinking number of things keeping the country from slipping from its perch as the world’s foremost economic superpower.