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Re:Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech co... by craftyguy on Thursday July 26, 2018 @10:40PM (#17623079)
It's almost like we need a system of government where officials are held accountable for decisions they make in office years later when they prove to be incredibly poor decisions. The current system allows them to make long term decisions and get away with it since it does not impact them (term limits, etc help with that)
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Re:Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech co... by a3n on Thursday July 26, 2018 @10:53PM (#17623119)
Which politicians from which decades will we hold responsible for allowing explosive tech growth without a plan for the long time residents, service workers and teachers who can no longer afford to live in the area, unless they live on the sidewalk or the bus?

Surely this was foreseeable.

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Re:Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech co... by craftyguy on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:21PM (#17623218)
That's silly.

Probably the ones that chose to pick low hanging fruit (cue this article) rather than actually start to plan for long term solutions to big (existing) problems.

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Re:Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech co... by ajmurmann on Friday July 27, 2018 @01:33AM (#17623683)
Explosive growth is great. Trying to keep a city looking as it did in the past and thus not having enough housing is the problem.
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Re:Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech co... by a3n on Friday July 27, 2018 @10:03AM (#17625999)
And thus, according to the proposed idea to hold past politicians responsible for future side effects, there should have been a plan for the side effects.
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Re:Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech co... by gaius on Friday July 27, 2018 @01:52AM (#17623766)
It’s undemocratic AF but that is the one good thing about the House if Lords... if anyone there messes up their family will need to deal with it. Of course Tony Bliar wrecked that too.
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