Podbit · The Tim Dillon Show
San Francisco is getting better — but not because of teachers, nurses, or housing reform. AI companies flooded in and demand clean streets. The city improved, but it's now the Eye of Sauron. Things don't always get better the way you'd want.
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Tim draws a connecting thread between London and San Francisco as case studies in cities that change for the wrong reasons. The UK's non-dom regime — which let oligarchs live in London while parking money in tax havens — has been abolished, and now those oligarchs are leaving for Dubai. The scam ran for decades, and people are shocked it ended. Meanwhile, San Francisco is getting cleaner: no crime in the streets, fewer tent cities. Why? AI companies and their workers flooded in and demanded order. Tim's Tolkien metaphor lands hard: this is not a city healing itself, it's the Eye of Sauron establishing dominion. Mordor had low crime too. He extends the argument to LA, Portland, Seattle, and Texas, landing on his consistent position: there are no saviors, no trends, and the problems in cities improve only when something worse replaces them.
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