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Birmingham has all of its black people locked up with some of the highest incarceration rates in America. They'd just arrest your ass and throw the book at you if you camped in the streets. This is your alternative.
Offer people food and shelter. Hopefully they will take it. If they decline because they like the streets better, there has to be some recourse. We can't cede the health and safety of public spaces because we are too afraid of having to ever tell a person "no." It's not compassionate to let people live in dangerous and unregulated encampments.
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I used to be a progressive and used to campaign for candidates. Then I stayed where I am and the rest of the bandwagon moved way way left. So, I will probably vote against any of the "progressive" policies, politicians and elections. At this point, Florida and Texas have record net in-flux migration from California. Can't wait to see this competition completely kick California's butt. It is a shame, I am stuck here,…
I as well used to be more progressive, but it's gone too far. The center-left of 20 years ago feels center today.
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I as well used to be more progressive, but it's gone too far. The center-left of 20 years ago feels center today.
And the right-right of 20 years ago feels center today. The left is progressive intentionally by branding. The "conservative" right wing keeps gets more extremist, opposing things as fundamental as elections.
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Most Texas and Idaho cities also have a lot more physical space to work with than SF does. (Hell, most cities, period, do.)
That's such a load of baloney, man. Yeah, you're right, SF is hemmed in by a bunch of natural barriers BUT there's more than enough space and money to build some utopian high-density stuff if it weren't for the NIMBYism. You can work part time as a janitor in downtown Tokyo and afford live in a comfortable apartment within 20 minutes of your job (Comfortable by local standards, but Japanese people don't usually use c…
It's unlikely a janitor would be able to afford a comfortable apartment 20 minutes from work. The norm in Japan is for the husband to be the sole breadwinner, and a janitor's salary would almost certainly push them further away from the center. You certainly can live in the center parts of the city, with low prices, but the place you rent is not going to be comfortable. This is a better situation than SF or NYC, obviously.
Tokyo is actually quite expensive. You can't compare the specific prices against American cities, because the wages are considerably lower. Folks work insane hours to get overtime pay to afford their lifestyles. Similarly, the reason the prices don't increase is partially because they keep up with building enough units (and that's partially due to zoning), but also because there's effectively no inflation, and there hasn't been inflation for a long time. Prices don't change, but neither do wages. Home prices are also deflationary, unlike the US.
Tokyo is a great city to use as a good example of building a dense, immensely enjoyable city, but it's best not to exaggerate.
(I currently live in Tokyo and am in the process of buying a home)
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Safer for who? I’m sure enough of the disproportionate minority men in prison and jail or who get harassed by police would disagree with safer. Same with transgender people or people not fitting into traditional social norms.
Safer for people who prefer less violent crime and criminal mischief.
Crime has been dropping for decades, and cities are safer than ever. Hell, San Francisco is one of the least violent cities in the country.
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I know this is a forum for tech bros who are generally well paid but responding to a story about a million dollar public toilet with "that's no big deal, I'm currently spending six figures on minor kitchen renovations" seems pretty out of touch to me. That is a ton of money to so many people.
'Out of touch' is putting it lightly.
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I know this is a forum for tech bros who are generally well paid but responding to a story about a million dollar public toilet with "that's no big deal, I'm currently spending six figures on minor kitchen renovations" seems pretty out of touch to me. That is a ton of money to so many people.
Thank you. I laughed out loud when I read this part: > In many parts of the United States, you can buy a whole house for $300k.
And you’d likely get anywhere from a third to half the house you’d have gotten in 2019. That’s the point.
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Thank you. I laughed out loud when I read this part: > In many parts of the United States, you can buy a whole house for $300k.
In many parts of the United States, you can buy a whole house for $100k.
Price doesn’t seem that outrageous to me. Public bathrooms in cities get destroyed and are very difficult to maintain; a lot of cities give up on free restrooms entirely. One of the biggest perks of working downtown in a moderately sized or larger city is being able to go to the bathroom there outside of work hours. I priced out some relatively minor kitchen/bathroom renovation work in 2018 at around $100k. Put it of…
I know this is a forum for tech bros who are generally well paid but responding to a story about a million dollar public toilet with "that's no big deal, I'm currently spending six figures on minor kitchen renovations" seems pretty out of touch to me. That is a ton of money to so many people.