@Bill Cereske Most people have no idea what it's like in some areas of California since the redefining of crime.

Prices of lumber are skyrocketing should be buy now and tie up cash for our upcoming devs, ocean freight pricing tripled should we continue ordering from overseas vendors?

I would concur that the US economy is a freight train, but right now I'm not feeling convinced that the price appreciation we've seen isn't largely from falling interest rates and government intervention.  

Though sometimes I wonder if it would be better in the long term if the last of the big manufacturers would just die and let the city redefine itself with a more stable and diverse economy (is this blasphemous?)

They're literally redefining all STRs as "hotels" to get that 7-day minimum rule.

It's a machine to dig up opportunities, similar to a freight train.

Now they overcompensate because only way to stop the freight train is by derailing it.  

Your whole generation redefines the term fake it till you make it apparently. 

Don't try to redefine yourself to fit a system that works for other people.

I can't stress how frugal of a life I have lived or how far I have come given my options when I left home at 16, including but not limited to traveling other countries, places, volunteering, riding freight trains, and even hitchhiking across the country as well many other experiences that have shaped me.