https://jacobinmag.com/2019/09/dean-preston-san-francisco-socialist-democrats
OP. We need a tldr. Also need TC.
170k, read the article
Universal healthcare will go a long way to helping prevent homelessness
It is because of debt based monetary system. Not because of capitalism.
Yes, the QE went to the pseudo-capitalists, IPO crowd, and increased cost of living everywhere. Capitalism required that rewards are proportional to output, not fluff and hype. Instead of creating environment where people can put in the effort to make their own lives, we rely on hoarding by one side and *budget-limited* welfare/provisions on the other. The budget limit comes from overheads and effective siphoning of funds legally. It's this corruption of everything that's the problem. Blaming capitalism is a distraction from it. Any system would have better outcomes than any corrupt system.
Sf has the highest ability to turn a poor man rich. Same with many tech cities like San Jose and Seattle https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/income-inequality-upward-mobility-map-us-2018-2
And vice versa too
Ya let’s just say things. Also it can turn you into a gliding squirrel
Ooh, let me try! Ahem, "people are homeless because of the foggy weather". Or "homeless people did not exist in USSR, Venezuela or China". Or "rest of US is purely socialist, so they don't have homeless people".
Homeless people existed in the USSR.
Exactly, but they couldn't blame it on capitalist economy.
The problem is much more complicated and well explained in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area?wprov=sfti1. Just go around SF and you will find entire neighborhood rebuilt for wealthy people, pushing out everyone else.
Nope. We just allow people to live on the street. Vast majority of other cites do not. We incentive the behavior and other cities punish it. Really that simple
So, you lose your job, can’t pay your rent, and must end up in jail? Or you get a massive medical bill and go bankrupt and you go to jail? I really hope you’ll never find yourself in such situation
Notice that the people in this thread who live in these areas get so angry and defensive when you call their cities shitholes with failed leadership. That’s because they realize they’re part of the problem since they vote for all of these clowns to lead them 😂
No people are homeless because Democrats won't let capitalists build houses without taxing the heck out of em and making it not profitable.
Just look around, there are constructions of new apartments everywhere in the valley, including in SF. The problem is the price tag, one bedroom $4000 a month. If you don’t work in high tech you can’t afford it. So, if you just educate yourself instead of repeating the talking points of Fox News, you would understand a bit more
So we’ve had Democrats in office in SF for 60 years but we’re going to blame the “capitalism economy“ instead of the people that have been in power? Only idiots would fall for this, too bad there’s so many idiots in California, alas
Even without reading the article I can say your argument is wrong. It boggles my head how an educated person can be so bad at simple logic.
Yet you’re choosing not to actually articulate your counter argument. So by all means enlighten us