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DESCRIPTION:Oh, we much prefer in-person gathers, but for launching this project, a 
 virtual show-of-hands will guide us to next steps.\n\nPlease join a 
 moderated discussion of what educators (and self-considered educators) 
 might do in reviving San Francisco.\n\nDialectical Consumerism\n\nThere's 
 no mistaking that San Francisco is in a nebulous state. It's most recent 
 life as the center (along with the lower peninsula) of the tech economy is 
 fractured . . . not gone by any means . . . but fractured by the collapse 
 of its downtown office culture. In addition, the catastrophic reality of 
 the wealth divide which the tech boom accelerated is now manifest as Market 
 Street and downtown generally have become a litter of abandoned humanity 
 and failed do-goodism public efforts to address rampant drug use. And, of 
 course, San Francisco's endemic housing challenges persist, with land 
 prices hovering above the wages of a huge proportion of the population . . 
 . like a damoclean sword. \n\nThe failure to recognize that the 
 privatization of land values is the great engine of so many of society's 
 recurrent miseries is the starting place for Dialectical Consumerism 
 analysis (DCa). DCa observes that two salient facts about all land prompt a 
 dramatic shift in public policy regarding land use. One, land exists 
 independent of humanity. It is existentially different from everything 
 human-made. Second, land values emerge because of the presence of humanity. 
 Land values vary because of the matrix of interests attracting human energy 
 to one location or another. These interests are social, commercial, and 
 aesthetic in nature. DCa holds that the private consumption of goods and 
 services values is in stark contrast to the private consumption of land 
 values. In short, the exchange of privately created goods and services for 
 access to location is an absurd equation. Privately created goods and 
 services exchanged for access to land of community-generated value is an 
 irreconcilable relationship leading to recurrent crises.\n\nIf DCa piques 
 your interest, join us in this inaugural online gather. Perhaps you've 
 agonized over how to resolve free enterprise with social impulses. Perhaps 
 you've fantasized a reborn San Francisco, but come up blank with what 
 economy will restart the marvelous history of San Francisco (marvelous from 
 prehistoric times when evidence indicates a large number of first peoples 
 gathered here to thrive in the estuarine ecology of sea, air, and land 
 foods). DCa provides an opportunity for educators to take the lead in 
 shaping the systems thinking that will distinguish San Francisco. It is not 
 the next iteration of material wealth-getting (Gold Rush mining succeeded 
 by port city dominance succeeded by banking succeeded by tech succeeded by 
 ???) that interests us, but the very social stratum in which material 
 wealth is generated and distributed. This holds our attention. We are in a 
 protean stage of San Francisco's life.\n\n\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/04/16/18855497.php
SUMMARY:Dialectical Consumerism: San Francisco's next iteration
LOCATION:Virtual via Google meet: meet.google.com/hnb-abfm-fzg
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/04/16/18855497.php
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