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Why don't they move? They live in an RV...
by sirakov 10y ago
Why don't they move? They live in an RV...
- danharaj 10y agoThat's basically asking "why don't they just throw away all their social connections and uproot their lives more than they already are"? Where you live isn't just the building you inhabit.
- sirakov 10y agoIt's that what all immigrants do? Uprooting for economic reasons is pretty common, (immigration, children moving away from parents, etc). If anything they (and we as a society) should be thankful that there is the opportunity to move unrestricted in a large and diverse nation.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoYou sound like you think it's easy.
- rayiner 10y agoIt's not easy (immigrant here), but it's better than being homeless!
- johndubchak 10y agoMany are from the area and have lived in the area most of their lives. The current situation has evolved over the last 20 or so years to the point where it has become economically impossible to live because of the "outsiders", from large tech companies, coming in and displacing them. How willingly would you be to pick up and move in this situation?
- sirakov 10y agoThese "outsiders" are themselves fellow Americans or immigrants who uprooted their lives in search of economic prosperity. Maybe I am misunderstanding something but is seems foolish to me to sit in a single location and complain that the right economic conditions for my success are not at my current location and refuse to move (especially ironic since we live in a capitalistic market economy, jobs are constantly changing and resources moving around).
- johndubchak 10y agoThe article never mentioned they are complaining, IIRC. They are economically displaced. Where would they go? This is a large-scale socio-economic uprooting. Many of them lack marketable job skills and the necessary finances to allow location portability. We're experiencing a very large shift in financial wealth where the level of poverty in the country is increasing at rates not seen since The New Deal and that's the entire point: the Bay Area is an extreme example of this where economic disparity is so extreme. Add to that the socially minded nature of California and you have those people who "complain" of the lack of a social safety net at the Federal level or even a lack of a fair balance of distributing economic wealth fairly. edit: And our "capitalistic market economy" is anything but capitalistic, in fact it is predatory upon the poor and economically disadvantaged. [1],[2],[3],[4] [1] http://reason.com/archives/2015/04/26/american-capitalism-vs-the-free-market http://reason.com/archives/2015/04/26/american-capitalism-vs... [2] http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746 http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746 [3] http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/making-money-off-the-poor/?_r=0 http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/making-money... [4] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/17/social-immobility-climbin_n_501788.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/17/social-immobility-c...
- harryh 10y agoThere is no meaningful data that backs up your assertion that the poverty rate in the United States is significantly increasing. In fact, the rate has been essentially flat for 50 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Number_in_Poverty_and_Poverty_Rate_1959_to_2011._United_States..PNG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#/...
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- rinchik1 10y agoExactly my thoughts. Cognitive stagnation, inflexibility, absence of basic planning and analysis, religious frames they put themselves in etc etc all these are the factors that don't allow these individuals to break class levels up or even stay on the same level.
- hyggyhhfdd 10y agoThis is basically what immigrants do. It is hard, and depressing many times but if you really want to improve your situation you have to do it.