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San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide

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Post by malvosenior »

eigenstuff wrote: post #279
malvosenior wrote: post #227

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> I'm sure there are plenty of racists everywhere, but I do find it hard to believe that there aren't more percentage-wise in the south. Isn't that statement prejudiced and discriminatory toward people living in the South? You're doing exactly what it is you're accusing and entire geographic region of doing. Why do you think there are more racists in the South? Why do racists believe what they do? I suspect the answe…

It is prejudiced against the South. That's the last acceptable prejudice amongst the "woke," and I say this as a red state SJW. Lots of blue state liberals have no idea that the Southern diaspora code switches with them, often avoids having to talk about where they're from lest it be held against them, that making comments about "escaping the south" isn't cute or funny at all, it's insulting, hurtful, and a microaggr…

Indeed, it blows my mind that it's completely acceptable in some company to speak for "the South" as a huge area filled with tens of millions of people think in a homogeneous way. My experience has been that people are no more racist in the south than they are anywhere else. It sure makes it easy to sweep people with slightly different lifestyle under the rug and dehumanize them though.

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Post by anbop »

atom-morgan wrote: post #255
anbop wrote: post #143

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Have you paid attention to the “cityhood” movement in Atlanta, where white people are using their friends in state government to split themselves off from the black neighborhoods in their towns?

I have not and if that's true, that's fucked up and why I'm a libertarian. In the context of this argument, I think it's worth distinguishing between private and public actions. People have the right to be racist, governments don't.

Wouldn’t the libertarian position be that a group of people looking to secede from a municipality be allowed to do so? Even if they do so in a bloc that includes only wealthy neighborhoods plus lucrative commercial real estate?

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Post by kerkeslager »

ALittleLight wrote: post #203
kerkeslager wrote: post #163

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There are numerous factors in play, and I don't think you can conclude that regulation is the only factor in play here. Texas is dealing with a much greater supply/demand ratio of a key resource: land. Given a wealth of resources, nearly any system would work--that doesn't mean the system is better.

Are you suggesting California is short on land or comparing the state of Texas to the city of San Francisco?

California.

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Post by nerder92 »

I'm planning to move to SF form Barcelona next year and this kind of article always makes me doubt a lot about my decision. Especially because of the fact that seems like that there's nothing less then tech to talk about in SF, and i'm seriously worried about how this can affect not only my creativity but also my relationship (my girlfriend is not tech). Can you advise me any other place (in the US) to move for a while where i can improve my network, discuss interesting ideas that have a similar wheather condition to Spain??? I'm starting to consider new options.

Thank you!

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Post by zzzeek »

bassman9000 wrote: post #275
zzzeek wrote: post #62

I've lived in New York City for about 25 years in three different boroughs, and as as a member of the "arty bohemian gentrifier" class I was in transitional low-income areas and things like occasional street crime, gunshots and stuff like that were not unusual. But only once did I actually see two street people start a knife fight on a subway train and it was during one of my probably less than five short visits to S…

Manhattan in the late 80s was probably a little more comparable to that What changed?

in the mid 90's the younger adult generation was replaced by kids who didn't grow up exposed to leaded gasoline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis

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Post by TMWNN »

jonathankoren wrote: post #183
zzzeek wrote: post #101

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yeah this was odd, it goes into a typical "meh DEMOCRATS ruin everything" but then he calls for new taxes, a redistributive policy and however vague "strong government housing policy". Doesn't sound very free markety ?

Most of the article was simply stating the obvious about SF, but the end was very weird. When the National Review starts calling for a land-value tax and a “redistributive policy”, I’m sorry, but I’m going to call this disingenuous trolling by the author, because these are not policies the National Review honestly advocates for.

"There's a sense in which all taxes are antagonistic to free enterprise – and yet we need taxes. ...So the question is, which are the least bad taxes? In my opinion the least bad tax is the property tax on the unimproved value of land, the Henry George argument of many, many years ago." —Milton Friedman

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Post by zzzeek »

airstrike wrote: post #277
bassman9000 wrote: post #275

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Manhattan in the late 80s was probably a little more comparable to that What changed?

Giuliani

this is complete bullshit and every new yorker knows it. Why hasn't crime returned to pre-1990 levels in the last 18 years? Not enough time ?

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Post by Redoubts »

typon wrote: post #265
Redoubts wrote: post #246

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2/3 of my coworkers don't even vote, so it's not quite created by them in the way you imagine.

How does voting have anything to do with helping create the gig economy, driving up rent prices due to high paying jobs for single people, etc?

Those things don't exist in a policy vacuum.
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