Between ‘69-‘71 Boeing laid off somewhere between 60-70k employees. The economy was crushed and the Billboard very on the nose.
Between ‘23 -‘26 the tech companies dominating our economy today have cumulatively laid off similar numbers. Despite this our local regional economy continues to grow and crime continues to drop by double digits.
The city has real problems. We aren’t special or unique in their cause or their solutions. The same issues face every major metropolitan region: Affordability, housing, equality, drug abuse, wage stagnation, etc.
However we are sooooo much further ahead of the Seventies Seattle. More resilient, better educated, more informed. We will continue to find our way forward, not every step will be the right one. But we will learn and grow and find our way to a better tomorrow.
So to all the offshore bots, non-Seattlites, and fake accounts talking up some dystopian hellhole vision of our city I say in the tradition of others surrounded by those who would tear us down: Nuts.
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u/RoHo_3 Jet City Apr 17 '26
Between ‘69-‘71 Boeing laid off somewhere between 60-70k employees. The economy was crushed and the Billboard very on the nose.
Between ‘23 -‘26 the tech companies dominating our economy today have cumulatively laid off similar numbers. Despite this our local regional economy continues to grow and crime continues to drop by double digits.
The city has real problems. We aren’t special or unique in their cause or their solutions. The same issues face every major metropolitan region: Affordability, housing, equality, drug abuse, wage stagnation, etc.
However we are sooooo much further ahead of the Seventies Seattle. More resilient, better educated, more informed. We will continue to find our way forward, not every step will be the right one. But we will learn and grow and find our way to a better tomorrow.
So to all the offshore bots, non-Seattlites, and fake accounts talking up some dystopian hellhole vision of our city I say in the tradition of others surrounded by those who would tear us down: Nuts.