SF is strangled by a landed gentry supporting a sclerotic, byzantine bureaucracy that stands for nothing but increasing property values. This Machine prevents @chesaboudin from enacting his reforms & @micsolana his technocratic ones. Rage against that Machine, not just each otherhttps://twitter.com/mikewavsz/status/1350167041961955328 …
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People like to blame politicians and public workers, but in San Francisco ex-contract corruption, they have to come to grips that politics is actually pretty responsive to voters as a whole.
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imo the biggest choke point in SF politics is the quality of the candidates. Like if you’re an ambitious, competent person there are a million easier, better paid jobs in SF than local government. We need more people to step up and do it for the love.
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You think so? Definitely it’s a unpleasant job for low pay, so some kind of greater income smoothing pursuing arts of government would help, but I tend to think candidate quality above average.
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It is likely above average but nowhere near where it should be for how important this city is and how deep our problems are.
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I suppose, few systems are at the optimal. I’m all for larger research bodies and higher legislative pay. Staff too. But insomuch as the problems are conflicts of perceived interests among voters, may be pushing on a string.
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With better candidates I think we could have an easier time convincing voters. But then maybe with more convinced voters better candidates would arise. My problem is it’s hard for me to ask for money from tech for the current crop of candidates. They aren’t going to fix things.
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Are tech people high propensity voters (probably) and are they numerous enough to really occupy such a place in the democratic process? Do you think their representation under-weight?
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They have money
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Yeah, but democracy is one place where, in some limited respects (counter-example: vote propensity), we are equal.
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Replying to @danfarina @CathyReisenwitz and
Money’s effects on policy: probably. Effects winners of elections: more marginal.
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