Spiraling in San Francisco’s Doom Loop
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What it’s like to live in a city that no longer believes its problems can be fixed.
Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images This article was featured in One Great Story , New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In the spring of 2019, Marc Benioff surveyed his kingdom and it looked good. He stood on the top floor of the Salesforce Tower, the tallest building in San Francisco, named after his company, then the largest employer in San Francisco. You could see every part of the city and out across the bay. The UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and the Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland (to which Benioff had donated $250 million). T
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