The Tim Dillon Show

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498 - Backrooms, Spencer Pratt, & The D’Amelio Family Disaster

Explore episode Jun 6, 2026

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UK Non-Dom Tax, San Francisco as Mordor, and Dysfunctional Cities

At 20:30 · chapter starts 13:20

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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