Re:How San Francisco’s Open-Air Drug Dealers Work
by xyzzy123 on Monday July 10, 2023 @05:36PM
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What if our many of our intractable social problems are symptoms of the baumol effect?
As productivity goes up in some areas of the economy, the relative cost of dealing with social problems goes up. Doctors, nurses, social workers, police - these professions are not scalable and feel "more expensive" (their time more scarce and valuable) every year.
Re:How San Francisco’s Open-Air Drug Dealers Work
by isthisfoss on Monday July 10, 2023 @11:17PM
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It’s not a money issue. These cities have all the money they can into reducing “homelessness” aka open air drug markets. It’s a policy issue. Get these guys off the street and tell them to get clean.
Re:How San Francisco’s Open-Air Drug Dealers Work
by bsder on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @12:42AM
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The money being spent on "fixing homelessness" is a small fraction of the money that was being spent on the (admittedly terrible) mental health medical facilities that California shut down back in the 1970s.
"A failing mental health system leaves this mother pleading: Keep him in jail"
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-12/one-moms...
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/...
As long as the demand exists, the supply will come.
If you want to fix this, you have to get the users into the medical system to get them off the drugs.
But, you see, that takes money--real money. And nobody actually cares about the drug users--they just want them out of sight.
So, the charade will continue. And so it goes.