San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses

Re:San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, b... by closeparen on Thursday November 05, 2020 @06:08PM (#25003099)

As upper-middle-class professionals we tend to assume that city institutions are here to serve us, and that the things we find unpleasant must be failures.

The ability to pitch a tent almost anywhere, free from police harassment, is pretty great if you’re homeless.

Likewise the public transit system is pretty great if you’re a transit worker, or someone who wants an indoor third space but whose appearance/behavior/smell would tend to get you thrown out of Starbucks, or if your best alternative is to walk.

San Francisco isn’t failing. It just values these people and their needs a lot more than it values the comfort and convenience of tech workers. If you don’t like it, vote for a moderate instead of a progressive in your next BoS election.

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Re:San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, b... by danans on Thursday November 05, 2020 @06:30PM (#25003269)

> Likewise the public transit system is pretty great if you’re a transit worker, or someone who wants an indoor third space but whose appearance/behavior/smell would tend to get you thrown out of Starbucks, or if your best alternative is to walk.

A public transit system is a huge advantage for upper middle class professionals, and even more so when them homeless are housed. This can be seen in developed countries that have good public transit systems.

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