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It’s correlation vs causation. The presence of income inequality makes the city more and more liberal. Politics is a dial between fairness and freedom. There ar
by dzink 8y ago
It’s correlation vs causation. The presence of income inequality makes the city more and more liberal. Politics is a dial between fairness and freedom. There are downsides to both, so elections tune the setting depending on your current conditions. CA is the state where the pursuit of happiness is most fruitful. There are 124 Billionaires in CA (only 400 something in the entire united states). Of those 70+ are in the Bay Area (most are locally grown in this tiny region of 7million people). All of Germany has 48 or something. Thus in the land of opportunity, you are either a billionaire, or act like you want to be in the future, or you push on the dial for fairness.
- nodesocket 8y agoIn Tennessee for example you can achieve the American Dream, a beautiful house by working hard in the middle class. In fact some of the most beautiful houses I have ever seen are here in Tennessee and I've lived in Santa Barbara, San Diego, and San Francisco. This is just not possible in the bay area.
- sudouser 8y agobeautiful houses there!
- orangecat 8y agoPolitics is a dial between fairness and freedom. And sometimes you get neither. SF building restrictions are both unfair in that you have to have a very high income or win the rent control lottery to afford anything, and unfree in that they prohibit voluntary transactions between landowners and would-be buyers.