Fuck this ghoul and every other Silicon Valley asshole clutching their pearls that their scam companies have made their city unlivable for anyone not making $300K a year.
We talked about the thefts we had witnessed in the city and the sidewalk thieves’ markets where steaks, bicycles and other stolen goods are fenced. Safaí said he had recently stopped to inspect one of these markets at 24th and Mission. “Half of Walgreens was on the sidewalk. I’m not kidding,” Safaí said. “I was blown away. I’ve never seen anything like it in this city.”
Sounds like these entrepreneurs are simply outcompeting the more inefficient firms like Walgreens, and the market is rewarding them for it. :cap-think:
Almost like there is a direct link from poverty to crime?
Are you suggesting people aren’t shoplifting from Walgreens because they enjoy it?!
Husband worked a basic customer service job on Market street in SF, regularly interacted with the local homeless. Eugene aka the Candy Man would steal boxes of Ferrero Rocher chocolates from Walgreens and resell them to people. He also called getting arrested winning the homeless lottery because you get a shower, new sweatpants, and by the time they let you go, your social security in your bank account has piled up. Although it’s risky because then everyone knows you’re flush with cash and you’re more likely to get robbed.
There’s a Grateful Dead song called Candyman. There’s a line in it which is widely considered to be about the song’s protagonist going to Memphis to kill a sheriff:
I come in from Memphis Where I learned to talk the jive When I get back to Memphis Be one less man alive Good mornin’, Mr. Benson I see you’re doing well If I had me a shotgun I’d blow you straight to hell
Kind of fun since the Dead is basically from San Francisco as well.
lmao
