>A million-plus for a home with $300,000 down? Then when we have kids, $30,000 a year for private school? This quote totally confounded me. Why is it a given that their kids have to go to private school? If you're optimizing your budget for home-ownership, why not just send your kids to the schools your taxes are paying for?
> why not just send your kids to the schools your taxes are paying for? Because thanks to massive underfunding US public education is ... not exactly what one can expect from a first world country. In some areas children actually only have four days of school because of underfunding ( http://www.ladbible.com/news/news-school-switches-to-four-da... ).
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#32I find it amazing that "locals" can get away with blaming "tech workers" for rising rents and homelessness. The rents and the house prices only rise because the wealth that the workers generate is blocked from being used to build new houses.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
> why not just send your kids to the schools your taxes are paying for? Because thanks to massive underfunding US public education is ... not exactly what one can expect from a first world country. In some areas children actually only have four days of school because of underfunding ( http://www.ladbible.com/news/news-school-switches-to-four-da... ).
> US public education is ... not exactly what one can expect from a first world country. As a European, I slowly wonder if there's any public service in the US that meets the "first-world country" standard. Not education. Certainly not healthcare. Infrastructure is also crumbling from what I hear.
But the private services can be top notch if you've got the cash.
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#34>A million-plus for a home with $300,000 down? Then when we have kids, $30,000 a year for private school? This quote totally confounded me. Why is it a given that their kids have to go to private school? If you're optimizing your budget for home-ownership, why not just send your kids to the schools your taxes are paying for?
> why not just send your kids to the schools your taxes are paying for? Because thanks to massive underfunding US public education is ... not exactly what one can expect from a first world country. In some areas children actually only have four days of school because of underfunding ( http://www.ladbible.com/news/news-school-switches-to-four-da... ).
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
> US public education is ... not exactly what one can expect from a first world country. As a European, I slowly wonder if there's any public service in the US that meets the "first-world country" standard. Not education. Certainly not healthcare. Infrastructure is also crumbling from what I hear.
US is the best if you are rich, you can get almost everything here not same in Europe.
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#36I find it amazing that "locals" can get away with blaming "tech workers" for rising rents and homelessness. The rents and the house prices only rise because the wealth that the workers generate is blocked from being used to build new houses.
But why? Why isn't all that wealth being used to make the city more livable? More affordable for the poor? More diverse?
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#37Why is it that despite high housing prices everywhere in the tech region, homelessness appears acutely concentrated in SF?
Services for homeless people (housing, drug treatment, mental health, employment, etc etc) tend to be concentrated in cities.
OTOH, drug dealers, too, obtain economies of scale by concentrating drug users in close physical proximity (and vice versa). It seems to be plausible to assume that the easy availability of drugs is itself causally contributing to drug use and drug addiction.
[1] A. Badiani, Is a 'general' theory of addiction possible? A commentary on: a multistep general theory of transition to addiction. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24888430
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
> why not just send your kids to the schools your taxes are paying for? Because thanks to massive underfunding US public education is ... not exactly what one can expect from a first world country. In some areas children actually only have four days of school because of underfunding ( http://www.ladbible.com/news/news-school-switches-to-four-da... ).
Is that so bad? Schooling is a waste of time anyway, this way kids have more free time and they can enjoy their childhood and learn some new skills on their own.
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#40>A million-plus for a home with $300,000 down? Then when we have kids, $30,000 a year for private school? This quote totally confounded me. Why is it a given that their kids have to go to private school? If you're optimizing your budget for home-ownership, why not just send your kids to the schools your taxes are paying for?
> why not just send your kids to the schools your taxes are paying for? Because thanks to massive underfunding US public education is ... not exactly what one can expect from a first world country. In some areas children actually only have four days of school because of underfunding ( http://www.ladbible.com/news/news-school-switches-to-four-da... ).
The real reason for the poor performance of our schools is the authoritarian disintegration and disassembly of American society by having both enabled and defended degenerate behaviors that disrupt teaching because terroristic children sabotage the education of children who want to learn, and because American society that was unified and had common interests and was focused has been flooded it with foreigners that are not only disparate, but they are draining and sabotaging the system because of the divisions they cause through so many different friction points that it’s not even worth starting to list them all. Reality also is that, just like the article we are discussing, nobody can acknowledge or even really understand, let alone accept the consequences of this division that was caused by force, imposed, and against the will of the American people, who have foolishly, even if generously simply accepted the authoritarian abuse of their generosity.
Americans that built the very country that the freeloading people of the world are flooding into and who are being given preferential treatment over the descendants and carriers of the very values that produced what we all have in the very first place. It’s an utter self-destructive process akin to drug addiction that feels great and fun when things are still under control even though you are burning through your savings to fund your addiction that you are so far into you can’t even recognize it. Reality is though, that the consequences are accumulating, regardless of whether you can or want to even acknowledge them, let alone do something about them, and the crash and destruction is inevitable as the drug is used by your drug dealer to exploit and destroy you. So are our schools suffering from advanced addiction to division and fracturing that was brought on by the authoritarian and despotic “diversity” cult. You will see the consequences unfold in Europe just as much as they have in the USA as their division has been increased by force over the last decades, and so will also their mythologized efficient and effective quality education system. Because in the end, the biggest and most important question is how such systematic thinking people like programmers could not realize the massive technical debt of a divided and fractured and pollute code base that was simply “diversified” with every single useless library and language and process one can think of, in a bout of insanity by believing diversity is good when the clear evidence is that unity and similarity and focus and specialization are all not only good, but quite literally produced every single thing all around us even if now deliberate inefficiencies are introduced as a good thing.