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   French chef).   
      
   The other day I walked by Millennium Tower. Once a symbol of the push to   
   transform our funky town into a big city, it’s a gleaming 58-story   
   skyscraper in the heart of San Francisco, and it’s been sinking into the   
   ground—more than a foot since it was finished in 2009. A group of men in   
   hard hats was just standing there, staring up at it. The metaphor is   
   obvious, but San Francisco has never been a subtle city. I’d like to   
   believe those guys finally had a plan to fix the tower. At least they   
   seemed to accept that it needed fixing.   
      
   For so long, San Francisco has been too self-satisfied to address the   
   slow rot in every one of its institutions. But nothing’s given me more   
   hope than the rage and the recalls. “San Franciscans feel ashamed,”   
   Michelle Tandler told me. “I think for the first time people are like,   
   ‘Wait, what is a progressive? … Am I responsible? Is this my fault?’”   
      
   San Franciscans are now saying: We can want a fairer justice system and   
   also want to keep our car windows from getting smashed. And: It’s not   
   white supremacy to hope that the schools stay open, that teachers teach   
   children, and, yes, that they test to see what those kids have learned.   
      
   San Franciscans tricked themselves into believing that progressive   
   politics required blocking new construction and shunning the immigrants   
   who came to town to code. We tricked ourselves into thinking psychosis   
   and addiction on the sidewalk were just part of the city’s diversity,   
   even as the homelessness and the housing prices drove out the city’s   
   actual diversity. Now residents are coming to their senses. The recalls   
   mean there’s a limit to how far we will let the decay of this great city   
   go. And thank God.   
      
   Because Herb Caen was right. It’s still the most beautiful city you’ll   
   ever see.   
      
   https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/how-san-francisco-becam   
   e-failed-city/661199/   
      
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