What if I make my own lunch and bring it to work?
SF Supervisors Move to Ban Workplace Cafeterias
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#42What disgraceful garbage. The technology sector needs to be relocated out of this hellhole.
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#43Maybe office workers prefer not to have to run the gauntlet of feces and hypodermic needles, just to buy a sandwich. "San Francisco Man Steps on Hydodermic Needle, Demands Action" https://www.nbcbayarea.com/on-air/as-seen-on/SF-Businesses-W... "Junkies Take Over Corridors Of San Francisco Civic Center BART Station" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gT5NULvRSk "SF Crime, Squalor Scares Away $40 Million Medical Conventi…
Maybe those things will get addressed once people have to run a gauntlet to buy a sandwich. It's much harder to ignore in an ivory tower.
Replace "people" with "politicians" and I'll give you an upvote.
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#44Isn't this the same as the Broken Window Fallacy?
They want to force people to use economically inefficient services, small restaurants versus large cafeteria, to create more economic "activity". Which would be analogous to celebrating the waste of breaking a perfectly good window, because fixing/replacing the window generates economic activity. Is that fair?
This is under the (I think reasonable) assumption that a cafeteria designed for 500-1000 people is probably more efficient than the dozens of smaller scale restaurants needed to match that supply.
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#45I wonder if they'll be allowed to order a pizza.
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#46Banning workplace cafeterias is a good start, but really the solution they should be discussing is banning workplaces. The workers at tech companies like Twitter and AirBNB are known to have access to working in their own buildings, which deprives nearby cafes of the dollars they could be spending buying a single espresso and then working for 9 hours.
Don't joke. Local politicians can decide to take private land and buildings. See Kelo v. City of New London.
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#47SF should ban private cars, because it deprives public and commercial transportation of customers. SF should ban owning your own apartment, because it deprives landlords of rent. SF should ban e-commerce purchases, because it deprives local retail stores of sales. SF should ban cleaning your own home, because cleaning companies need more business.
The first three would create a pretty interesting urban space.
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#48Peskin is indirectly blaming "techies" for the fall of Retail.
This proposal reminds me of nationalism, in the way he talked about, "...the rest of us[.]"
We're seeing Trump trying to use protectionism, smothered with a thick gravy of nationalism, to solve the macroeconomic woes of the US industrial sector. Trump's foolish effort is failing.
Peskin also clearly does not have a viable solution. Someone needs to help him, and the City, get a grip on reality.
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#49Maybe San Francisco should consider banning restaurants to protect the jobs of cafeteria workers.
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#50Maybe office workers prefer not to have to run the gauntlet of feces and hypodermic needles, just to buy a sandwich. "San Francisco Man Steps on Hydodermic Needle, Demands Action" https://www.nbcbayarea.com/on-air/as-seen-on/SF-Businesses-W... "Junkies Take Over Corridors Of San Francisco Civic Center BART Station" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gT5NULvRSk "SF Crime, Squalor Scares Away $40 Million Medical Conventi…
Maybe those things will get addressed once people have to run a gauntlet to buy a sandwich. It's much harder to ignore in an ivory tower.
Unless you live and work in the same building, there is no ignoring this stuff in SF.