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> San Francisco is one of the most economically unequal cities in this country. So what's up? Show me a city with low inequality, and I'll show you a city that
by raldi 8y ago
> San Francisco is one of the most economically unequal cities in this country. So what's up?
Show me a city with low inequality, and I'll show you a city that's driven away all its poor people.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoSan Francisco is unequal. It is also driving away all its poor people, because they can't afford to live there. (The homeless, clearly, are the exception.)
- habosa 8y agoI am not one to claim that what I want is complete equality. Or even anything close. But the richest city in the richest state should not have thousands of people living on the streets and rents so high that nobody working a low or middle tier job can afford to live within an hour, let alone raise a family.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoIf SF decided to fix the homeless situation by providing them with psychiatric care and/or housing, all, then all the homeless around the country would start heading to SF and they would end up subsidizing it for the whole country. Even as it is, the nice weather and tolerance makes it attractive for homeless to move there, hence the inequality. There needs to be a national solution to the drug addiction and (lack of) mental care that the US is suffering from.
- cvwright 8y agoReally? Incomes tend to follow a power law distribution. Zoom in on the upper tail of a power law, and what do you see? Another power law.