Re:Good cities can't exist without public order
by AnthonyMouse on Monday December 23, 2024 @10:50AM
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Trying to pin this on "wealth inequality" is misdirection. Amazon having a large market cap and Jeff Bezos owning a significant fraction of the shares isn't really what caused any of this.
The real issue is poverty, and in turn cost of living. People can't afford housing, become desperate, crime increases. But trying to fix this with "safety nets" is basically "let them eat cake" unless you have a way to fund it, and trying to fund it while the prices are still so high means the government can't afford it either, whereas if you were to adopt policies that lowered housing prices then that would be the solution in itself.
But now you need to make that happen in San Francisco.
The real issue is poverty, and in turn cost of living. People can't afford housing, become desperate, crime increases. But trying to fix this with "safety nets" is basically "let them eat cake" unless you have a way to fund it, and trying to fund it while the prices are still so high means the government can't afford it either, whereas if you were to adopt policies that lowered housing prices then that would be the solution in itself.
But now you need to make that happen in San Francisco.