No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing

Re:No one expects young men to do anything and they are resp... by giantg2 on Sunday April 24, 2022 @01:18PM (#31146058)

"First, it's not federal minimum wage, it's minimum wage for each jurisdiction. So Washington state being $11 or whatever it is, not the federal min."

The BLS data was only tracking federal minimum. I would like to the state minimum wage earners, but that wasn't in that report.

"so I believe rich city liberals need to change zoning to allow cheap housing to be built."

I believe it's all due to preferences. The preference for sfh, preference for better schools, preference for low crime, etc. It's pretty cheap to live in many north Philly neighborhoods. Many people don't want to.

I agree with the final part. I turned down jobs in college due to the commute cost.

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Re:No one expects young men to do anything and they are resp... by coryrc on Sunday April 24, 2022 @01:52PM (#31146413)

> Many people don't want to.

They'd like their kids to go to school without bad influences. You can't watch your kids 24/7 so choosing the kind of people they'll be around is one of the few levers you have as a parent.

Now, if we had a national ethos/culture which the government was empowered to enforce (like Denmark, Japan, etc) then it doesn't matter as much which neighborhood you live in. But living in North Philly is basically dooming your children, what we might call "intergenerational poverty".

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Re:No one expects young men to do anything and they are resp... by giantg2 on Sunday April 24, 2022 @02:11PM (#31146596)

Yes, and those empowered schools would be a much better fix than the one parroted around about just fix zoning so we can build more housing in the desirable areas.

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