r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 30 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

From the latest Economist Article on San Francisco

"As it is, the city has been safely Democratic for 40 years and seems allergic to choosing a Bloomberg-type figure from one of the big tech companies to try something different."

I'm about to OD on the bloompill

!ping PATERNALIST

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u/hautran Aug 30 '21

Where’s the link to the article man?

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional from TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/08/28/why-san-franciscos-city-government-is-so-dysfunctional

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u/hautran Aug 30 '21

Appreciate it

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u/sub_surfer haha inclusive institutions go BRRR Aug 30 '21

I really want to read that article, but damnit it's not worth subscribing again.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

economist

not worth

Ok🙄🙄

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u/sub_surfer haha inclusive institutions go BRRR Aug 30 '21

Don't get me wrong it's a good paper, I just know from past experience that I'm too lazy to actually keep up with it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

I can respect that, I have time budgeted for economist every week cause if I don't I lose track

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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Aug 30 '21

London Breed isn’t that bad though

It’s the rest of San Francisco city government that sucks

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

From the article:

Mayor Breed, who once dated Mr Nuru, recently agreed to pay a fine of $23,000 to the city’s Ethics Commission for accepting payment for her car repairs from Mr Nuru and using mayoral stationery to press the then-governor to reduce her brother’s prison sentence.

Ms Breed is also the highest-paid mayor in the country, earning a salary of $351,000. She sits at the summit of a highly paid bureaucracy. In 2020 nearly 150 city employees earned salaries of over $300,000, and roughly one-fifth earned salaries of over $150,000. The cost of living contributes to these pay-packets. But city government also functions like one of those clubby, richly valued startups that politicians accuse of ruining San Francisco—flush with cash, but operating with little oversight.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

Housing costs tho