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It is indeed a US problem. Just look at the depressed areas of the US on the east coast and south. However, SF brands itself as the city of the future, innovat
by sloanedavids 8y ago
It is indeed a US problem. Just look at the depressed areas of the US on the east coast and south.
However, SF brands itself as the city of the future, innovation, and progress. Because it is the epicenter of the worlds technology startup scene.
But this darker aspect of the city contradicts that positive brand. You can’t be the city of progress and innovation if half of your people are subsisting in third world pits of despair. I mean you can try to be, but it doesn’t quite work. Something is wrong.
- wallacoloo 8y ago> However, SF brands itself as the city of the future, innovation, and progress. Because it is the epicenter of the worlds technology startup scene. I think what you describe are mostly business-related things. As an outsider, SF’s brand is about [mostly young] people claiming their opportunity to make a lot of money. None of the branding I see is about improving wellbeing. If something is wrong, I think it must be more general, perhaps that money and wellbeing aren’t so coupled. But unless SF is totally misrepresenting its brand to me, I’m not seeing any contradiction in its brand.
- YuriNiyazov 8y agoI think the misunderstanding here is between what San Francisco supposedly used to be (a haven for hippies, LGBTQ, and other misfits) and what it is now (a haven for young people with business ambitions)
- gamma-male 8y agoYup. They are propositions to solve the problem (prop C) but hilariously people are against them because it means more money being spent. Screw the people living in the streets if that means I can’t buy the next iPhone am I right?