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This type of cultural movements require some deep genuine ethos. Rich kids on Adderall who dream of startups and VC rounds do not qualify, no matter how much t
by PedroBatista 3y ago
This type of cultural movements require some deep genuine ethos.
Rich kids on Adderall who dream of startups and VC rounds do not qualify, no matter how much they pretend not to be finance jerk-offs in shorts and sandals, reality is not on the side of SF being the center of anything like this.
Any Rustbelt city has 100% more chances than SF and California in general.
- FFP999 3y agoSee comments below. You are talking about SF in the past ten years: I am talking about the next ten.
- PedroBatista 3y agoI know but there isn't enough time in 10 years for this type of changes. SF is still fundamentally the same as it was 10 years ago. Only a cataclysmic collapse similar to Detroit would change SF in a way that people with money had left and only the ones the had to stay had enough hardship but also education to make something at the scale of what happened in Berlin, which in that case was an almost complete annihilation and 40 years of brutal communism clashed with an economic boom and freedom a few meters away. ( plus many other things )
- FFP999 3y agoI guess we'll see. East Berlin was unique, but then again, every set of historical circumstances is unique. I'd also argue that, by missing the boat (pun intended) on containerization and allowing the Port of Oakland to poach most of the shipping traffic, the city's original main economic engine shut down, and that the dotcom booms aside, SF's default mode for the past 60-70 years is "wretched hive of scum and villainy". The Summer of Love, the first counterculture to be called by that name, arose in Haight-Ashbury because the Haight was a slum at the time and a group of broke hippies could often band together to afford the rent on a house there.