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Do you ever think about how San Francisco basically went through an economic miracle, with multiple years of double-digit growth, and about the only thing they have to show for it is a world-famous housing crisis? Data from fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPAL...

I agree that we should have a lot more to show for it, but I think it might be worth taking a look at how San Francisco's museums, opera, symphony, music venues, sports venues, public transportation, and public spending compare to other cities of similar (or even greater) size

Sure, but SF also had the 1990s tech boom, the 1980s finance/corporate HQ boom, the post WWII economic boom, the WWII shipbuilding boom, the post-quake boom, the gold rush… San Francisco has arguably had immense wealth flowing through it since its name was changed from Yerba Buena to San Francisco

san francisco has cut its muni service like 4 times in the last 30 years and never brought it back!

I'm 100% for making MUNI (BART and AC Transit) service better, but if you look at SF transit next to almost any other US city of its size, it's leagues better And part of why we've been able to afford it is because San Francisco raises beacoup tax revenue from all the wealth that flows through it

the funding mechanisms are still fundamentally broken no matter how much money the city has(just likeBART being depemdent on fares) Muni is dependent on the general fund of the city which very quickly has dried up post covid(as what happened after 08 when service was never dully brought back)