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3 people · 5 quotes · 21 May 2020 to 21 Dec 2025
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Sacks questions whether people will still choose San Francisco if remote work breaks the network effect.
“if those jobs opportunities are now available via Zoom and you can be doing them from anywhere, are people still gonna choose to live in San Francisco?”
Gerstner observes San Francisco parents prefer Waymo robotaxis over human-driven Ubers for their kids.
“We see parents all over San Francisco that are getting their kids to after school activities in Waymo's with no drivers. They actually prefer it to an Uber with a driver.”
Friedberg describes San Francisco's managed alcohol program giving beer and vodka to homeless alcoholics 24 hours a day.
“the city of San Francisco has a managed alcohol program where they will give out beer and vodka to homeless alcoholics that they can come and get any time of the day, twenty four hours in hotel lobbies where they walk in, they are given either they can choose a vodka or a beer.”
Friedberg cites reports of the program giving 17 shots of vodka in one night to a single person.
“there are reports that they've given out 17 shots of vodka in a single night to a homeless person.”
“there are reports that they've given out 17 shots of vodka in a single night to a homeless person. And this is like a 5 to $10,000,000 a year program”