Subject
5 entries
Inequality
Bookmarks
The Ponzi Career
Dror Poleg's essay arguing that knowledge worker careers resemble Ponzi schemes — each generation depends on the next to maintain asset values, and the winners are those who got in early on the right credentials and networks. A sharp structural critique of meritocracy narratives.
Mesmerizing Maps of Where People Jog: Rich and Poor Neighborhoods
CityLab's analysis of GPS jogging data from running apps revealing that people run primarily within their own neighborhood's economic boundaries — a data-driven illustration of urban spatial segregation. Shows how behavioral GPS data exposes social structure.
Inequality & Mass Transit in the Bay Area
Dan Grover's interactive data visualization showing how transit access in the Bay Area correlates with income and geography — a 2013 example of civic data journalism that made structural inequality legible through maps and charts.
Class-Divided Cities: San Francisco Edition
Atlantic Cities (now CityLab) analysis of San Francisco's class divide in 2013 — Richard Florida's data showing SF as one of the most economically bifurcated cities in America, with a shrinking middle class squeezed between a booming tech elite and a large low-wage service sector.
San Francisco Tech Boom Brings Jobs and Worries
NYT on the 2012 San Francisco tech boom — the influx of tech workers driving up rents, transforming neighborhoods, and creating visible inequality between tech workers and longer-term residents. An early document of tensions that would define the city's politics for a decade.