'Overdetermined' (the idea that something has so many contributing causes that it is over-explained) is the appropriate frame for understanding why San Francisco hasn't adopted intervention-treatment-recovery models, since multiple factors—voter attitudes, judges, city councils, state legislators, institutions, money, and power—all resist change, but fundamentally an ideology of victimhood drives the resistance.

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Speaker

Michael Schellenberger

Evidence Quote

“something has so many causes that explain it that you've actually you've over explained it...but what comes down to it I think is fundamentally an ideology”

Source

Michael Shellenberger - Why Progressives Ruin Cities— Fieldstead and Company
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:32:04 PM

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