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San Francisco Mayor London Breed lashed out at Tesla boss Elon Musk as “the person who got a ton of tax breaks in California and decided to take that money and run.”

Breed, who has lamented the adverse economic impact of remote work on her city, has expressed frustration with tech CEOs for promoting the narrative that the Bay Area was a crime-infested hellhole full of drugs and homeless people.

“My hope is that those who are critical would focus on trying to be a part of the solution rather than part of the problem,” Breed told Bloomberg News.

When asked about Musk’s frequent criticism of Democrat-run states and cities, Breed replied sarcastically: “You mean the person who got a ton of tax breaks in California and decided to take that money and run?”

 

Last year, Musk relocated the headquarters of his electric car company, Tesla, to Austin, Texas. It had previously been headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.

The decision by Musk to pull up stakes and leave the Bay Area was met with outrage from California lawmakers who reminded him that Tesla had received more than $3.2 billion worth of direct and indirect subsidies from Sacramento since 2009.

But Musk was in no mood for nostalgia. Upon announcing his decision to move to Texas, he said: “California used to be the land of opportunity. Now it has become and is becoming more so the land of overregulation, overlitigation, overtaxation and scorn.”

Breed lashed out at Musk for accepting tax subsidies from California -- only to relocate his electric car company headquarters to Texas.
Breed lashed out at Musk for accepting tax subsidies from California — only to relocate his electric car company headquarters to Texas.
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In April, Musk, who is in the process of acquiring San Francisco-based social media firm Twitter, suggested that the company’s headquarters in the Civic Center section of the city be converted into a homeless shelter “since no one shows up anyway.”

Breed, a Democrat, also called out San Francisco tenant Marc Benioff’s Salesforce, the city’s largest private employer and owner of its tallest office tower.

 

Breed told Bloomberg News she has tried to persuade Benioff, a billionaire and native San Franciscan, to bring his charges back into the office.

“He’s very supportive of the city, continues to contribute that support to schools and to other great causes, but the building is empty, and that’s a real problem,” Breed said of Benioff.

“Ultimately I can’t force or mandate, right? These companies are making the decisions that they believe that are in their best interests.”

The lack of foot traffic in tech-dominated San Francisco has had a devastating impact on small businesses in the area. The city estimates that one-third of its pre-pandemic workforce has stayed away from the office.

The advent of remote work during the pandemic has resulted in far less foot traffic on the streets of San Francisco -- to devastating effect on the local economy.
The advent of remote work during the pandemic has resulted in far less foot traffic on the streets of San Francisco — to devastating effect on the local economy.
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Breed told Bloomberg News that her city will need to “get creative and diversify” if it hopes to lure employees back into their cubicles.

Since 2021, Salesforce has put in place a so-called “hybrid” model for its 77,000 employees who were given the choice to work “where, when, and how they’ll be most effective.”

Contact information for Salesforce, Benioff, and Musk were not immediately available.

Last year, remote work and a flight of companies from the area resulted in a $400 million reduction in tax revenue, according to the Office of the Controller.

Meanwhile, offices remain vacant.

The real estate research firm CBRE reported that the office vacancy rate in San Francisco rose in the second quarter to 24.2% — up from 23.8% in the first quarter. It is the highest vacancy rate in the nation among large cities.

Breed, the embattled Democrat, has tried to persuade tech CEOs to bring their employees back into the office.
Breed, the embattled Democrat, has tried to persuade tech CEOs to bring their employees back into the office.
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Manhattan office space has a vacancy rate of 15.2% in the second quarter while downtown Atlanta is at 22.8%, according to CBRE. Chicago (21.2%), Los Angeles (21.8%) and Seattle (20.3%) also reported high vacancy rates.

San Francisco has also experienced a steep decline in the quality of life.

In August, a consortium of small businesses in the trendy Castro District threatened to withhold tax payments unless the city took action in removing homeless people from the area.t.

Breed hopes that San Francisco’s proximity to world-class universities such as Stanford and University of California, Berkeley, as well as its status as the epicenter of venture capitalism will be enough to entice tech workers to return.

“People may not like what they see, and they’re probably frustrated with all of this, but it doesn’t mean that the city is not working its ass off to try and help people,” Breed said.

How San Francisco Uses Sex To Build It’s Culture

San Francisco promotes itself as an “anything goes” sexual lifestyle city.

Modern colleges sell the idea that putting your tongue or penis is someone else’s butt hole is ‘more exciting because it is more socially forbidden’. Kids from college swarm to San Francisco because they are told that they can get all kinds of sex and drugs there. Kinky people have three times as much sex as traditional people. So the horn-dogs move to San Francisco. Valleywag producer: Nicholas Denton, who openly loves young boys, spent a decade documenting Bay Area sluttery.

Alas, focusing your life on sex and drugs is not a great career choice. This has left San Francisco with one of the largest homeless populations of any major city. Thousands of douche-bag, wannabe, hipsters infest the alleys and facade-like neighborhoods of the City that was founded by prostitutes and gangsters.

Each of the Mayor’s of San Francisco, for decades, has had scandal-after-scandal with hookers, sleeping with aides wives, screwing Harvey Weinstein, having sex with convicted bribery perps and other shenanigans.

All of these kids want homes in SF but none of them can afford homes in SF. In offset, they create dorm-like flop-house dives to live-in, infect each other with AIDS, Monkeypox and scabies and fall by the way side.