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So your second hand anecdotes trump literally thousands of statisticians, economists, social workers, and other social scientists who spend their entire lives understanding these i…

Nutrition and mental illness are closely linked. Lack of healthcare and mental illness are closely linked. Lack of housing and mental illness are correlated. Lack of employment opp…

What about using entrepreneurial skills, website design, and internet marketing knowledge like SEO to engage in the political process? What if Silicon Valley, instead of always lob…

The lack of compassion, perspective, and empathy in this thread alone is enough to make any idealistic computer geek want to burn down Silicon Valley. It's fucking shameful that ne…

They're trying to preserve their dignity. If someone offered them a rat race job and they had the appropriate education, cultural norms, social skills, and were mentally healthy, t…

When the poor have no money they can't pay entrepreneurs. When the super-rich have all the money, the super-rich drive up the cost of living. The middle class then must directly se…

Are you aware that we live in a period of peak unemployment? There are literally millions of people who want jobs. The jobs were all made obsolete by Silicon Valley. The safety net…

You need a citation to prove that homeless people don't want to be homeless? Silicon Valley has peaked. Idealistic, social-conscience-having nerds take note: This is what happens w…