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Homelessness in SF has network effects which are entrenching it. The city does provide a lot of resources so it makes it ‘easier’ to be homeless. On top of that

Homelessness in SF has network effects which are entrenching it. The city does provide a lot of resources so it makes it ‘easier’ to be homeless. On top of that it’s quite centralized and so if you fall in because of mental health or economic issues you’re likely to run into people who are doing/selling drugs. With a less dense homeless population these probabilities are less. Then you have sufficiently warm weather year round (unlike NY). I don’t know of a humane way to solve this issue that doesn’t require billions and billions of dollars, but we may be doing more damage than good by not taking a harder stance like NY did.

Pica_soO 8y ago
Creative citys have more homeless- disrupting, non-incremental creativity relies on controlled schizophrenia, and those "useful" creatives have family members or children who get the full hardcore life destroying side of a brain on a runaway recombination trip. I`m happy im living in germany. I have a brother, who studied engineering - and he got hit hard by the "dark side of the family" with several episodes. He is on a state pension now, he will not live the life of his dreams, but at least he does not have to fear for his existence and roam the streets. Several members of my extended family have similar issues to a varying degree, and its the state pulling them through, the family carrying them - or spouses, who basically steer them remote. The last type can be very bewildering for others a grown up man, engineering great machinery, being basically ordered around like a little kid in social life by his wife. Do you really think, all those break-troughs grown on trees? Are made by those normal, 9-5-5 a week, incremental cogwheels? Don't you ever wonder, who dreams up all those paranoia and excitement drenched TV-shows you consume? All this can be done by everybody, if you just show up and work really hard? The homelessness you see, is a by product of the creative process. Get used to it. Handle it like a grown up, stop trying to solve the problem by protest-antics preachings to a reality who does not care about your moral outrage. Grow up.

Pica_soO 8y ago

Creative citys have more homeless- disrupting, non-incremental creativity relies on controlled schizophrenia, and those "useful" creatives have family members or children who get the full hardcore life destroying side of a brain on a runaway recombination trip. I`m happy im living in germany. I have a brother, who studied engineering - and he got hit hard by the "dark side of the family" with several episodes. He is on a state pension now, he will not live the life of his dreams, but at least he does not have to fear for his existence and roam the streets. Several members of my extended family have similar issues to a varying degree, and its the state pulling them through, the family carrying them - or spouses, who basically steer them remote. The last type can be very bewildering for others a grown up man, engineering great machinery, being basically ordered around like a little kid in social life by his wife. Do you really think, all those break-troughs grown on trees? Are made by those normal, 9-5-5 a week, incremental cogwheels? Don't you ever wonder, who dreams up all those paranoia and excitement drenched TV-shows you consume? All this can be done by everybody, if you just show up and work really hard? The homelessness you see, is a by product of the creative process. Get used to it. Handle it like a grown up, stop trying to solve the problem by protest-antics preachings to a reality who does not care about your moral outrage. Grow up.