The Arts Are Struggling to Survive in San Francisco. Here’s Why.

Did you ever wonder why, in Beat novels like Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, the characters have so much time to sit around and drink and smoke pot, despite living in expensive cities like New York and San Francisco? It’s because in the 1950s and 1960s, the cost of living was comparatively lower, while the minimum wage was higher — and meanwhile, the victories of the labor movement…