It's too bad SF is a terrible place to live, especially with kids. RTO can be a useful crutch for companies with little vision or product leadership, but is certainly being pushed beyond its utility by those with a vested interest in Bay Area and/or commercial real estate.
It takes under 8 months to get permits and build homes end-to-end in parts of the US. It taking years is a local problem. As long as demand runs much higher than supply, prices will keep growing.
Usually places with no regulation look a lot like Houston TX.
Do you know the situation depicted from the movie "Up" where there's a house surrounded by parking lots of malls and stuff? That's what low regulation building gets you. I'm not talking about NIMBYs, I'm talking about lax zoning laws.
Because humans are bad at statistics, and don’t want to waste money on hypotheticals. “It’ll never happen to me.” So you can skimp on the cost of safety training.
The F150 is the best selling vehicle in the US. That’s not an anomaly, the top 3 are all trucks, and 5 of the top 10 are trucks. Making a great EV truck is an enormous market opportunity.
Income tax has no impact on already accumulated wealth. Increasing income tax to target wealth accumulation only makes it harder for high earners who aren't currently wealthy to become wealthy, it has little impact on the already wealthy. A person earning $1 million a year passively from accumulated wealth is much better off than a person earning $1 million a year in income, with no accumulated wealth. The former doesn't have to work at all and can continue earning that income indefinitely, while if the latter stops working there income drops back to zero. Breaking up dynastic wealth with an actual robust inheritance tax and taxing very high earnings derived from wealth (e.g. capital gains) will be much more effective than higher income tax.
The oil came from small microorganisms that fell out of carbon cycle by getting themselves in places where they could not rot or get burned. The same story is behind coal, except it is not possible to generate any more coal deposits naturally.
The reason we have coal is some hundreds of millions of years ago there were huge plants that would topple but there was nothing on Eearth yet that could completely digest plant matter. So the biomass would basically stay where it fell and new plants would grow on top of dead ones. This explains the shape of coal deposits.
Some time later I think fungi evolved that could digest cellulose and any plant afterwards would rot rather than get burried. This explains why ALL coal deposits in existence are older than something like 600M years.
