Under billionaire rule, the city’s so-called abundance means more for the rich—and less for everyone else.

Now, Mayor Lurie has gone a step further by formally convening an A-list of billionaire CEOs to advise him on policy. The roster of “Partnership for San Francisco” includes Sam Altman of OpenAI, Ruth Porat of Google and Alphabet, Brian Chesky of AirBnB, and even Y Combinator’s Garry Tan (yes, the “die slow motherfuckers” Garry Tan). Public policy is looking astoundingly private.

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I’m rooting for SF’s success as I have every day for the 32 years I’ve lived here. But we have to be real about the impact of installing inexperienced, tech-industry aligned conservatives to run all branches of government. It’s already a failed experiment. San Francisco is in serious jeopardy because of the rising rents, evictions, unemployment, mass incarceration, income inequality, racism, and privatization that billionaires are inflicting on our city. While some may see the excessive accumulation at the top as “abundance,” it looks an awful lot like a war against the city’s working people.

I think this is relevant to this community since AI is deeply tied to the kind of mindset that is choking San Francisco to death, an empty, vacuous cynical embracing of power and money and I think this is precisely the kind of mindset that AI was born out of, that AI reinforces and that AI is a natural evolution of dehumanization from.

A city run with this mindset can never truly be for the citizens, not even when the companies that reside in it are some of the most powerful, cash flush corporations on earth. It is too broken of an ideology and I think in many ways AI is a perfect reflection of that brokenness. Broken technology made by broken people.

  • ZDL@lazysoci.al
    14·
    4 days ago

    Remember: For all practical purposes the USA does not have a left party. They have a center-right party (that’s swinging farther and farther right each passing year) and a lunatic-right party.

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
      6·
      4 days ago

      The Democrats have been calling themselves liberals for like half a century and Americans still think that they are left wing. The average American is basically politically illiterate. Like in the rest of the world everyone knows liberal = centrist.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOP
        2·
        3 days ago

        Additionally the crisis point and why the Democratic Party is functionally dead is it chose to sideline Bernie Sanders and ignore wealth inequality and dark money in politics/campaign finance reform and seeing that happen over my adult lifetime as a USian as my future was trashed makes me need to scream and/or cry.

        Centrists and liberals in the US are insufferable in their inability to question if things are unjust in the current state, things are changing but me and countless other people have already been broken by the suffocating sense of hopelessness this creates in people who are suffering. There is no fixing that, it is time and life lost.

        Burn the Democratic Party to the ground for all I care, it is a roadblock to progress and the best it can offer is fucking Gavin Newsom throws up in trash can.

  • etherphon@piefed.worldEnglish
    14·
    5 days ago

    The what now? I implore you Dem establishment for the love of god forget about all of that shit and focus on the well being of every single person in the united states because we’re fucking battered.