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>What do you do with the people left behind? What do you do with the engineers once they've written all the software to automate our daily lives? But haven't y
by Joe-Z 9y ago
>What do you do with the people left behind? What do you do with the engineers once they've written all the software to automate our daily lives?
But haven't you read what the very empathetic and kind poster before suggested as an answer?: These fucking losers should move to whatever hill cave's still vacant, because they are to blame for not having gotten rich fast enough.
I really like your writing, very precise and to the point. However, you completely leave out the option of taxing and fair redistribution. Because, yes, I do believe everyone should have a right to live in the Bay Area. Maybe not in the richest neighbourhoods and beach houses, but there's got to be a fairer alternative to dividing up the space than pricing out everybody but the richest. Sure, there's the idea of UBI, but that still seems pretty far out and for most people is not a realistic option.
- Helmet 9y agoThere is no such thing as "fair redistribution" - it's theft through political means and it will just further obscure the market. You will end up exacerbating the problem. The solution is to build more housing and stop subsidizing one-another, so that those that can afford to live there do and those that cannot move.
- newshorts 9y agoLook up ordolibralism. It seems to be working pretty well.
- ballenarosada 9y agoSo, those that cannot afford to live in SF: hill caves.
- mjfl 9y ago"Hill caves" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln,_Nebraska#/media/File:View_of_South_Lincoln.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln,_Nebraska#/media/File:... You're an idiot.
- someguydave 9y agoYour "option of taxing and fair redistribution" is actually a monstrous dictatorship. Every time it has been tried, many have perished and the median wealth has declined.
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y agoWhat on earth are you talking about? You believe the entire first world is a monstrous dictatorship?
- beaconstudios 9y agothe first world doesn't generally engage in wealth redistribution of that kind. Taxation for public services, yes, but straight up taking the money of the rich and successful and giving it to Joe Bluecollar? Not really.
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y agoWhat else would you call foodstamps, housing assistance and TANF?
- beaconstudios 9y agokeeping people alive? It's certainly not wealth redistribution.
- ballenarosada 9y agoI see you hit upon the same critique that Marx has of the German Social Democratic Platform. There's no such thing as fair distribution, there's only class war. Prepare to be rinsed.
- lacker 9y agoI do believe everyone should have a right to live in the Bay Area. No amount of taxing and redistribution will achieve that, because the supply of housing in the Bay Area is restricted to grow slower than population growth. The only way to make that happen is to build more housing.