CA to Pay Off All Past Due Rent Accrued During Covid, Giving Renters Clean Slate

Re:CA to Pay Off All Past Due Rent Accrued During Covid, Giv... by esyir on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @04:45AM (#27589382)

This is the way you get defect culture on a massive scale. People don't go "oh, man, I did whatever I could to make it. Good on him for his bailout". They go "Why the hell did I try, when I get punished for it?". They then remember this, and over time you have an engrained cultural problem.

This "solution" that I see right now is the short-termist, feel-good solution that comes crashing down in the "not-my-problem-I-already-got-relected" future.

Some might have better choices than others, but you still should be optimizing for the local "best" choice to align with the global "best" choice.

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Re:CA to Pay Off All Past Due Rent Accrued During Covid, Giv... by DoreenMichele on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:39AM (#27589648)

We did that to the best of our ability during the pandemic in part by asking some folks to stop working. Now you want to punish those folks.

That doesn't optimize anything. It just means some people get shafted and become cynical about "taking one for the team."

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