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thoughts on safety in sf - by vincent huang

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the first time i lived in sf, i didn’t know much about it other than that people kept telling me it was unsafe, so i read a bunch of quora answers on which parts of the city were the most dangerous. most responses mentioned the usual suspects (hunters point, tenderloin, etc), but there was one comment that’s stuck with me for the last few years - it went along the lines of “by far the most dangerous people in sf are certain tech leaders who are willing to unleash massive changes on the world in pursuit of personal profit” back then i thought very cool, congrats on writing a contrarian quora answer. it’s taken me almost three years to come around. in many ways it reminds me of those childrens’ science museums that ask what’s the most dangerous species on earth and the answer turns out to be humans - not the answer you wanted, but eventually you grow up and understand the truth behind it anyway, the point of this post isn’t to discuss the dangers of capitalism or man-made ecological coll

the first time i lived in sf, i didn’t know much about it other than that people kept telling me it was unsafe, so i read a bunch of quora answers on which parts of the city were the most dangerous. most responses mentioned the usual suspects (hunters point, tenderloin, etc), but there was one comment that’s stuck with me for the last few years - it went along the lines of “by far the most dangerous people in sf are certain tech leaders who are willing to unleash massive changes on the world in pursuit of personal profit” back then i thought very cool, congrats on writing a contrarian quora…

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