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Nobody is entitled to live in the city they work in.
by argonaut 11y ago
Nobody is entitled to live in the city they work in.
- jdavis703 11y agoRights are an arbitrary idea. Simply emphasizing that something is or isn't a right is tantamount to writing a fictional book. Even something as literally life altering as whether your own government (assuming you live in a democracy) can rightfully kill you or not is arbitrarily decided [0]. 0: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/10/former-navy-chief-expresses-concern-over-uk-role-in-syria-drone-strikes http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/10/former-navy-c...
- argonaut 11y agoLook. I work in the SOMA neighborhood of SF. That doesn't give me the right to live there (and I don't - it's too expensive, so I live in the south bay).
- venomsnake 11y agoAnd as we saw with the recent refugee crisis no one is entitles to live at all. But if we strive to build a good society for whatever reason, one of the optimum solutions is to mix people of different backgrounds and paths of life together to enhance the social mobility.
- argonaut 11y agoI didn't say people are not entitled to live.
- colordrops 11y agoDepends on your philosophy, ideology, religion, and politics.
- organsnyder 11y agoWhy not? Is a living wage really a luxury?
- argonaut 11y agoThat's a false equivalence. I never said nobody is entitled to a living wage. If SF is too expensive, live in Oakland or Milbrae or Daly City.