[salimmadjd]

The cynical me thinks this is also a pre-election (“wish selection”) PR to help promote the case for Gavin Newsom as president.

You can imagine a talking point like “under my leadership, California overtook Germany as the 4th economy in the world…”

The reality is Newsom had almost zero impact on it, his leadership should be judge by the growing homelessness issue we’ve seen in SF and rest of California and not take credit for tech economy.

Yes, solving the homeless problem is a huge and complex challenge, but the country now needs leadership that is able to solve the big challenging problem.

We’ve lost our ability to fix hard problems and we need to do that if we want to have a chance in a more competitive world.

[trollerator23]

Exactly.