Re:Plastic Bags to Be Banned in New York
by closeparen on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @11:55PM
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a) Taxing workers to give non-workers free homes in premium markets violates most voters' intuitions about fairness.
b) Restricting internal migration or treating people from certain places preferentially also violates most voters' intuitions about fairness.
If American democracy is to end homelessness, anyone must be able to move to New York/San Francisco and immediately obtain a home there that neither they nor anyone else pays for.
Holding out for this doesn't seem like a good plan.
Platitudes are cheap.
Examine a statement to see if it's logic bears out before saying that it's impossible to approach safely.
Formal education is helpful in treating the root cause of the problem it's addressing, that of knowledge and skill.
Complaining disposable plastic bags are necessary for sanitation because of a large homeless society doesn't treat the root: Why are so many people homeless? (And yes, that problem is difficult and requires a multi-faceted approach... But plastic bags to pick up human shit isn't the solution.)