On the SF subreddit: https://t.co/XPS9UkKNCH

Sachin Agarwal

wow, how could this have happened? https://x.com/agarwal/status/1913114170800972251?s=46

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Ive read a few of these and discussed this with @zachharris.eth 

Thing is we’ve got a quasi-7x7 island, so logically it’s pretty easy to put a lid on things. Even when things were “bad” it was mostly just fashionable to gripe about crime. Nothing is ever as bad as people enjoy saying whether it is on price, traffic, crime, whatever

These are my principles. If you don't like them, well, I have others

Many instances of post covid misperception based on constructed narratives vs first hand accounts. The shift to fully remote for many I think compounded this warped perception of reality.

Ex. When I left NYC, there was so much looting and lawlessness. I remember countless businesses shuttered in Midtown and portable morgues lining the FDR. It was grim.

But NYC is back. And you have to see it and feel it and experience it to believe it. 

I’m fearful people have traded real dopamine for synthetic dopamine in the pursuit of convenience.

The last time I was in the Bay Area was in 2018 for Dream Force and I booked last minute, so stayed in Oakland by the bridge, where tent city was located and it felt like a dystopian favela from District 9

The difference is NYC was back a few years ago. SF was definitely not back until recently, sans for the few weeks before dear leader xi xinping came to town.