Then I'd take the train to the Stripe office, and there's just so much *suffering* of poverty in San Francisco. Homelessness exists everywhere, but in 2016 San Francisco it really broke my heart walking through town and seeing the conditions people were struggling in. And having noplace to relieve themselves but on the street.
And then, the contrast of it! To enter the Stripe office. Tech Disneyland! It was so comfortable.
But look out the window, and you'd see the disparity.
I talked about this with a friend when she came to visit me one day. She remarked how she had a conversation with someone who had a posh job in SF and was complaining, "Look at how much I have to pay for my tiny apartment. And then! All that money! For this!" and pointing at the homelessness in the street.
And she said, "You understand that's *because* you pay so much for your apartment right? These are all interconnected." And the person was just baffled.
SF is a place of extremes.
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