It's not just about GDP, SF is the most expensive city in the country to live. How equitable is the distribution? How much of that is directly tied to tech and the stock market bubble? What about the median family? People are moving out of the Bay Area, not moving in.
Rising GDP in San Francisco is certainly tied directly to Silicon Valley tech and wealthy techies and not evenly distributed across the residents in any way.
Oh, sure. Lets compare a reopening year print to the year of the pandemic, when the economic output of the city came to a stand still. That makes a lot of sense. Where are the pre-pandemic numbers to now?
Using general data to deny reality is curious. There is no question that key businesses are quiting downtown San Francisco, no question that vagrants have taken over several blocks of downtown and no question that petty crime has significantly increased in the last 3 years. To deny that San Francisco is in dire straits is not knowing San Francisco.
He's going to hold on to whatever candle still gives off light in an effort to deny that leftist policies are ruining the city.
if businesses that matter are moving out of SF because of "dirty homeless", why does their GDP keep going up?
The stock market made a lot of rich people a lot richer during the pandemic, especially those in the tech space. You need to look at the median and compare it to inflation, not the averages. The averages are skewed towards the wealthy, especially in a place like SF.
You contradict yourself. On one hand, you want harsher punishment ala Asia. On another, you point to Portugal and Oregon not following their model, which is a complete opposite of the Asian approach, focusing on rehabilitation and not penalization.
I don't see anyone denying the homeless problem or the crime poverty brings with it. Hell, I've often decried the intranational asylum crisis created by red states criminalizing homelessness and Cali. having to subsidize their outflow.
Didn't contradict myself. I believe that following something like the Japanese model maximizes utility for the most citizens. However, I'm leaving the Portugal model open as a possible alternative to what we have now. I should have broken it up to be more clear instead of putting them together. I think we can all agree that the current model sucks hard.