Elon Musk takes over Twitter

Work culture in Silicon Valley is the exact opposite of this right now. You are trying to create a narrative and you are flat out out of touch with what you are talking about.

To lure and retain talent, the big tech companies have largely adopted permanent remote work. ... and most of them have been offering options like four-day work weeks, not trying to get people to move into the office (top programming talent would flee to somewhere else; they have had leverage).

This is "Elon Musk culture," not "tech culture." He runs Tesla similarly to this. Interestingly, the only other idiots I can think of who ran companies like this were people like Elizabeth Holmes and Travis Kalanick and Sam Bankman-Fried, where they were all living together on a diet of adderall and questionable business practices. And in their cases, the companies were like giant frat parties where everyone was part of a cult. The people who were at Twitter largely didn't feel that way about Elon Musk. This is all coming from him.

I agree with you that the city of San Francisco shouldn't be involved. If people are stupid enough to kill themselves for a jerkoff who has no loyalty to them and isn't paying them nearly enough for what he demands of them, that's on them. I'd say they should be demanding equity in the company, at least, but with all of the debt he saddled it with, and the lack of cash the business generates, equity in that company can't be much of an inducement.