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The social benefits (including bottom-line contribution to the local economy) is freaking huge. Most American municipalities get by without such services. Per
by mnemonicsloth 17y ago
The social benefits (including bottom-line contribution to the local economy) is freaking huge.
Most American municipalities get by without such services.
Perhaps the way to persuade them is by providing hard data to support your cliam about social benefits.
- ojbyrne 17y agoMunicipalities are probably the best form of government. They're small and in touch with their constituents. And they generally have to support themselves. Why should they have to provide hard data to people who don't actually live within their boundaries (presumably you don't)? Especially when the primary usage of that data is going to be to support some ideology that none of their residents would agree with.
- daeken 17y agoYou don't have to provide it, but if there are benefits, you may be able to support this in some way. If you can support it, then you may be able to persuade others into following course. Your response seems overly defensive, considering what the GP was actually asking.
- mnemonicsloth 17y agoBerkeley doesn't owe Cleveland hard data. dasht owes us hard data if he wants to be taken seriously. Saying "The social benefit of X is freaking huge," with no support, is just a way of making "I really like X" sound more important.
- giardini 17y ago"Municipalities are probably the best form of government". Unfortunately municipalities are arguably the most corrupt form of government, the major sins being nepotism and crony favoritism. If all that TSA social network analysis software used (largely unsuccessfully) to locate criminals and terrorists was instead applied to _any_ large US city's municipal employee and political system a major scandal would result and heads would roll.