Today, Gopman is still outraged, but the target has shifted from the homeless themselves to city politicians, whom he believes should be fired like an underperforming CEO for not delivering on this issue (and not listening to him). City Hall, of course, sees it differently. As Supervisor Jane Kim says, “Trust me, if the answer were easy it would have been done by now.”

And that’s the deal, isn’t it? Techies look for techie solutions, no matter what the problem — but tech innovation is easy compared to innovation elsewhere. For things like this, there’s no silver disruption.

And in any case, as you intimate in there somewhere, I don’t think the villains here are (really, or perhaps just) Justin and Greg, but the good burghers of San Francisco over the past couple of decades…