Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed to Death in SF

Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by s5300 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @12:19PM (#35456583)

No, they’re coming & heavily disrupting the local economy which will lead to the current population unable to afford their lives after some time, which will lead to crime.

Do you disagree?

Call me crazy, but perhaps if those in SF could afford a home/ to live/ the basic necessities of a U.S. citizen, they wouldn’t be out on the streets being low lifes.

Not all of them, some people are truly irredeemable - but truly irredeemable people are typically doing much harder crimes than property theft & petty break-ins.

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by cscurmudgeon on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @12:34PM (#35456804)

So you are against migration?

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by anigbrowl on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:15PM (#35457395)

I think the gp is referring to coming in and buying a house for cash, something which is likely unaffordable for people who grew up in that community (because op says that pay scales are about 1/4 of what they are in tech metros).

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by cscurmudgeon on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:59PM (#35458062)

Yes, so against migration. Migration always introduces these factors.

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by anigbrowl on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:53PM (#35459563)

No, not necessarily.

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by cscurmudgeon on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:41PM (#35461450)

Even poor migrants increase demand for housing unless they somehow can live in the meta verse or carry their own housing like a snail.

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by notch898a on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @12:39PM (#35456883)

Wow, you sound like the people in my midwest hometown who freaked out when the Punjabis came in and bought all our gas stations.

When you look at the desperate parts of the midwest, of the ones that weren't always that way, you'll find most of the worst of the ones became that way after all the skilled / rich people left coupled with other capital flight. Not the other way around.

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by alchemist1e9 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:02PM (#35458111)

I never understand these types of comments, appeals to empathy over individual rationalism. How do people not understand at this point that societies are shaped by individuals making rational selfish choices in their own interests within a market system.

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