A rant on bus stops
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A rant on bus stops
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#2My write-up on the recent LA bus stop fiasco
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#3My write-up on the recent LA bus stop fiasco
The obvious solution (go to low regulation low trust) is likely impossible because of how rich we are.
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#4great write up, love the observational acuity - credit to author for both the travelling and the awareness to notice the differences. The Taipei bus stop reminds me a great deal of the stuff you see in rural Hong Kong - local residents basically hauling out an old couch for people to use if gov didn't provide the seating.
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#5We used to have rent subsidies, mental hospitals, all night movie theaters. All gone.
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#6Because homelessness. Because medical bankrupcy and opioid crisis. Caused by THE SAME industry. Nobody's responsible. Because USA is designed by and for small groups of people owning the companies providing for ridiculous money at insane conditions what everywhere else is cheap or free and well regulated.
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#7You wrote the blog post I've been thinking about writing for years. It's clear and simple and to the point. What you describe occurs constantly in every American city.
Thank you.
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#8Something I’ve always noticed across the US political landscape: people really don’t like spending money to directly help people (mental health care, institutions, public housing, addiction recovery programs) but are fine with wasting money in weird ways like having this non profit travel the world to learn how to put up a sun shade.
It’s like the thing Americans dislike isn’t spending the money but the idea of helping the wrong sorts of people.
I’m sure that non profit was full of mostly white college graduates. Tossing money their way is fine even if it doesn’t accomplish much or anything. Let the addicts die on the street.
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#10My write-up on the recent LA bus stop fiasco
The obvious solution (go to low regulation low trust) is likely impossible because of how rich we are.
In some sense U.S. regulation is the best in the world in that we’ve led on many health and safety issues such as suppressing tobacco smoking, nutritional labeling, airbags in cars, airplanes, etc.