I'll just play devils advocate a little bit here and say that I totally agree with both sides of this budding argument.
As someone born and raised in San Francisco / Marin I can confirm first hand how infuriating it is to hear and see millionaires indulging fantasy narratives about eternal youth, enlightenment, colonizing mars etc while the world around them that their children are going to inherit is falling apart. For people my age at the time (early 2000s) it was especially hard to be in cities where the roads were all falling apart, public transit was even less functional than other broken american cities, you would have to sit in traffic for 30-90 minutes just to get groceries or a sandwich and there were literally no job / career prospects for young people (still very true for my friends living in Marin).
With that said now that Im in an infinitely more livable / walkable / functional feeling urban space (Sacramento) and can see the Bay Area from a distance, I can appreciate that there is an importance in a certain percentage of the population focusing on the problems of tomorrow. There are kind, sincere and intelligent people involved in those communities. At least in my first hand experience / memory.
As someone born and raised in San Francisco / Marin I can confirm first hand how infuriating it is to hear and see millionaires indulging fantasy narratives about eternal youth, enlightenment, colonizing mars etc while the world around them that their children are going to inherit is falling apart. For people my age at the time (early 2000s) it was especially hard to be in cities where the roads were all falling apart, public transit was even less functional than other broken american cities, you would have to sit in traffic for 30-90 minutes just to get groceries or a sandwich and there were literally no job / career prospects for young people (still very true for my friends living in Marin).
With that said now that Im in an infinitely more livable / walkable / functional feeling urban space (Sacramento) and can see the Bay Area from a distance, I can appreciate that there is an importance in a certain percentage of the population focusing on the problems of tomorrow. There are kind, sincere and intelligent people involved in those communities. At least in my first hand experience / memory.