By Stephen Macaulay

According to Statista, the per capital income of San Francisco is $75,084. That is the highest in all major cities in the U.S., with Seattle in second place at $65,205, or about a non-trivial 13% delta. 

Maybe it is because people still associate San Francisco with the Grateful Dead or something, but the fact that there is roiling among the polity in the city should provoke nothing but a shrug. As is pointed out in the center column: “Democratic Mayor London Breed, who supported their recall, said the board was distracted by ‘political agendas,’ and should be concentrating on handling school reopening during the pandemic and addressing the school district’s $125 million budget deficit.” True that, as the kids say.

“Woke liberals” are as interested in the health of their kids as well as the funding for their kids’ education as the uber-MAGA crowd. Two points: (1) the wealthy have a tendency to protect their wealth and so they are driven by economic self-interest (yes, it is still “The economy, stupid”) and (2) trying to draw broader conclusions about society at large from a place where the per capita income is so absurdly high (the per capital income in L.A. is $37,779, or half of that of its northern neighbor).