44-year-olds are millennials now. 28-year-olds are Gen Z. If we want San Francisco to be a place where families can live, that means both millennials and Gen Zs need to be able to afford multi-bedroom apartments.
If we don't change anything, eventually San Francisco is going to be half retirement community (rent controlled in), and half techies (the people rich enough to pay whatever it takes).
I just listened to the latest episode of Jon Stewart's Weekly Show podcast and both historians emphasis about the draw of America for immigrants really stood out to me. People wanted to come because America was the place where you didn't have to bow to capricious lords. And for a long time that was the case! But like Lars Doucet has talked about with the end of automobile frontier, we may have entered an era without a new frontier. And when the frontier ends, the lords return.
America is supposed to be a country where any hardworking person can produce a fruitful life. We can talk about those ideals, but they're not worth much if we don't also build a system where they can be true. Reading Wooding's argument feels like the return of petty lords, and a lesson in the No True Scotsman fallacy.
44-year-olds are millennials now. 28-year-olds are Gen Z. If we want San Francisco to be a place where families can live, that means both millennials and Gen Zs need to be able to afford multi-bedroom apartments.
If we don't change anything, eventually San Francisco is going to be half retirement community (rent controlled in), and half techies (the people rich enough to pay whatever it takes).
I just listened to the latest episode of Jon Stewart's Weekly Show podcast and both historians emphasis about the draw of America for immigrants really stood out to me. People wanted to come because America was the place where you didn't have to bow to capricious lords. And for a long time that was the case! But like Lars Doucet has talked about with the end of automobile frontier, we may have entered an era without a new frontier. And when the frontier ends, the lords return.
America is supposed to be a country where any hardworking person can produce a fruitful life. We can talk about those ideals, but they're not worth much if we don't also build a system where they can be true. Reading Wooding's argument feels like the return of petty lords, and a lesson in the No True Scotsman fallacy.
ha in Orange County, we have a 3-story moral panic.