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<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: A City Dominated by a Single Industry of Rich People

San Francisco is now a town built on tech apps. Plus: Joe Biden is running for president, why the Passover and Easter holidays usually don’t overlap, and more

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The hub of Silicon Valley’s tech giants is swimming with rich people pushing up housing costs. But this year, a slew of major companies headquartered in the city—from Uber to Lyft to Pinterest—are expected to go public, injecting the city with a yet another crop of millionaires. One software engineer found that, among the many thousands of workers at seven San Francisco-based companies expected to

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