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I mean, this will go to like my my the overall thing that I was really taken away from the book, which represents the frustration I have felt watching politics in San Francisco with friends of mine, which is that there's this he talks. He says everything bagel approach in the book. So the idea was like, you're trying to make everybody happy and get everybody on board.
I mean, this will go to like my my the overall thing that I was really taken away from the book, which represents the frustration I have felt watching politics in San Francisco with friends of mine, which is that there's this he talks. He says everything bagel approach in the book. So the idea was like, you're trying to make everybody happy and get everybody on board.
So if you build in most democratic states, it's not just the landowner that you're needing to purchase the land from and the immediate landowners nearby. It's also every possible preference of the neighbors and the community and the character of the neighborhood and the homeowners associations and how it looks and every possible environmental angle.
So if you build in most democratic states, it's not just the landowner that you're needing to purchase the land from and the immediate landowners nearby. It's also every possible preference of the neighbors and the community and the character of the neighborhood and the homeowners associations and how it looks and every possible environmental angle.
So if you build in most democratic states, it's not just the landowner that you're needing to purchase the land from and the immediate landowners nearby. It's also every possible preference of the neighbors and the community and the character of the neighborhood and the homeowners associations and how it looks and every possible environmental angle.
And we have all these lawsuits like SICA where you don't even have to really be related. You can just throw up lawsuits towards basically any single project. This is used everywhere. to extort people into a building with certain contractors, by the way, because they will be like, hey, we have environmental concerns about your hospital you're building in Sacramento.
And we have all these lawsuits like SICA where you don't even have to really be related. You can just throw up lawsuits towards basically any single project. This is used everywhere. to extort people into a building with certain contractors, by the way, because they will be like, hey, we have environmental concerns about your hospital you're building in Sacramento.
And we have all these lawsuits like SICA where you don't even have to really be related. You can just throw up lawsuits towards basically any single project. This is used everywhere. to extort people into a building with certain contractors, by the way, because they will be like, hey, we have environmental concerns about your hospital you're building in Sacramento.
But if you go with us as contractors for all of the work, we're not really concerned anymore. These are easily abused. So you need to get the preferences of the unions and certain minorities and disadvantaged groups and small businesses and the taxpayers and lenders and auditors.
But if you go with us as contractors for all of the work, we're not really concerned anymore. These are easily abused. So you need to get the preferences of the unions and certain minorities and disadvantaged groups and small businesses and the taxpayers and lenders and auditors.
But if you go with us as contractors for all of the work, we're not really concerned anymore. These are easily abused. So you need to get the preferences of the unions and certain minorities and disadvantaged groups and small businesses and the taxpayers and lenders and auditors.
And if you try to make every single person or every possible shareholder super happy with everything, which is how our government, at least in blue states, is running, is operating. then nothing happens. And like, if you refuse to build anything because nobody gets fully satisfied by it, everybody is worse off.
And if you try to make every single person or every possible shareholder super happy with everything, which is how our government, at least in blue states, is running, is operating. then nothing happens. And like, if you refuse to build anything because nobody gets fully satisfied by it, everybody is worse off.
And if you try to make every single person or every possible shareholder super happy with everything, which is how our government, at least in blue states, is running, is operating. then nothing happens. And like, if you refuse to build anything because nobody gets fully satisfied by it, everybody is worse off.
And you're seeing this happen year over year as San Francisco becomes more expensive and homelessness becomes worse. And I, 10 years ago when I lived there, and maybe you had the same experience, 10 years ago, no working class person that I met in San Francisco lived in the city because they could not afford it.
And you're seeing this happen year over year as San Francisco becomes more expensive and homelessness becomes worse. And I, 10 years ago when I lived there, and maybe you had the same experience, 10 years ago, no working class person that I met in San Francisco lived in the city because they could not afford it.
And you're seeing this happen year over year as San Francisco becomes more expensive and homelessness becomes worse. And I, 10 years ago when I lived there, and maybe you had the same experience, 10 years ago, no working class person that I met in San Francisco lived in the city because they could not afford it.
And instead, they lived in other parts of the Bay Area and had to take BART, the subway.
And instead, they lived in other parts of the Bay Area and had to take BART, the subway.
And instead, they lived in other parts of the Bay Area and had to take BART, the subway.