San Francisco Is a Shithole and It's Not Being Fixed.
There's sort of an open acknowledgement at this point in Silicon Valley that San Francisco is literally a shithole and very prominent wealthy tech investors and tech CEOs are calling it out. Gavin Newsom said he was going to fix it 15 years ago and 10 years and he's still saying the same thing as Governor California. There's an interesting pushback against the stuff. A lot of people just left. And I mean, they go into places like Austin, Texas, which has its, you know, the signs of the same progressivism or developing there,. But I think that's an interesting development.
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Stagflation. Fuel Prices. Shortages. Political Turmoil. War in Europe. Roe V. Wade. Crypto Collapse. Counter-counter culture. Most years have one or two seminal, defining events that set the societal zeitgeist, but in 2022 so many events vied for attention that most people had to take time not only to revaluate what it means for the future, but also simply how to filter out the signal from the noise. Tonight we dive into the year, starting with the Ukrainian conflict, and ending with what might be emerging as an escalating one in Mexico, but in between cover the economic and cultural shakeups that continue to leave shockwaves into 2023.