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Governor Newsom announces California will make its own insulin

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Re: Governor Newsom announces California will make its own insulin

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Without Prop 13, homeowners would support the construction of multifamily housing in their communities, and that would keep property taxes low for everybody (not just dynastic families) and home prices affordable. Just like things were before Prop 13.

NIMBYs would all of a sudden want more housing to be built? 100% delusional. Nothing would change except homeowners would get crushed by property taxes and especially given the horrific income inequality in California, all the middle and lower income families would get destroyed. Thank God for Prop 13, it's the last vestige of income equality for Californians.

California has worse income inequality than 47 states, and Prop 13 is at the root of it. It ensures that only rich people can move to our cities.

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We had a subject called "Social Studies" in school which introduced us to other cultures of the world. I thought every country had something similar.

This is just the opinion of some fool on the internet, but I personally think that interacting with people from other cultures is far more important than just reading about them. Not saying I disagree with you, I definitely had social studies in school in the US but that didn't impact me nearly as much as interacting with other fellow fools on the internet. We can learn a lot more about each others perspectives and c…

I completely agree. I live in Canada, and run a weekly Zoom call on startups etc. We have quite a few members from India, Latin America and elsewhere and I find it useful to get their perspectives. I even have callers from China (you need to change the Zoom data center config to permit this). These are people that I met on WeChat groups (unfortunately not a realistic option outside China for most right now), and some former students. We try to stay away from politics, but interestingly there is a wide range of points of view from Chinese callers.
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