The phrase “doom loop” was recently repopularized by Arpit Gupta, a finance professor at NYU, in a paper he wrote last year with two Columbia B-school professors called “Work From Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse,” about the consequences for American downtowns of workers remaining remote.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A reporter tried to debunk the horror stories about San Francisco, but couldn’t because they’re true. “Some of the street addicts were rotting, literally: their decomposing flesh attracting flies.”<a href="https://t.co/KAhcEeVifu">https://t.co/KAhcEeVifu</a></p>— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) <a href="https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1656806716133228545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >May 11, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
