Subj : Re: 3.5 weeks to being la
To   : boraxman
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Jul 22 2022 07:32:00

-=> boraxman wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 bo> There is definitely that.  People also don't know why things matter, or
 bo> don't take responsibility.  One of the things that gets me about the
 bo> discussion on housing prices, is just how disconnected people are from
 bo> the flow on effects. There is a huge social shift


I've seen that firsthand. I went to school in San Francisco in the '80s, and 
lived there through the '90s at the ramp-up of the first dot-com boom. San 
Francisco changed, subtly at first and now materially. SF used to be a 
melting pot of cultures, demographics and income levels. Lots of people 
who'd lived there multiple generations. Now:

1. Working class people have a hard time affording to move there or raise 
kids there.

2. Multi-generational families are ending as elderly parents choose to sell 
to fund a retirement instead of passing the house along to the next 
generation.

3. Income inflation from the tech sector has caused house prices and 
discretionary spending (dining out, especially) to soar.

You used to be able to run into people who'd lived there all their lives, 
who grew up there, went to high school there, and so on. They're getting 
fewer and farther between. Sit at a bar, coffee shop or a restaurant and 
strike up a conversation with a plumber, roofer, or a fireman. There was 
also a tolerance that seems to have gone away, too. It's a shame.

The thing that struck me was talking a walk through the SOMA neighborhood, 
hotbed of tech companies. I shot lots of photos of an urban sprawl from 
2000-2002 - lots of warehouses, grafitti, gritty live-work lofts, and so on. 

In 2018, the warehouses had given way to high-rise condos. Restaurants I'd 
loved looked empty on a weeknight. But, there was a line of waiters on 
wheels and doordash drivers leading into the parking lot of a condo.

What's the point of living in one of the most eclectic cities in the world 
if you're going to eat overpriced takeout in your living room?






, which will greatly
 bo> impact our children and grandchildren, and people kind of just are
 bo> happy to be victims of change.  Actually, if you think about it,
 bo> whenever we talk of the future, of AI, surveillance, the new Internet,
 bo> the Great Reset, we kind of act, to paraphrase someone, as if the
 bo> future is something that happens to us, rather than something we
 bo> create.

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