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San Francisco convention canceled over dirty streets, homeless
- whatever1 8y agoEasily the dirtiest city of the US that I have visited due to conferences. On par with the NYC MTA.
- egypturnash 8y agoIIRC, Seattle’s starting to get this too. High levels of income inequality sure are fun!
- tekproxy 8y agoIf everyone had at least 1 million dollars but a few people had 1 billion dollars, that's massive income inequality. By your logic, or imprecise language, we should avoid this. Perhaps we could make everyone equally poor instead?
- kyleblarson 8y agoSocialism is really good at that.
- kthejoker2 8y agoIf everyone had a million dollars .. you mean like Zimbabwe in the 90s? Do you not understand how inflation works?
- bogidon 8y agoThe convention told SF travel "that they loved the city, but post-convention surveys revealed their members were afraid to walk the streets amid the open drug use, threatening behavior and mental illness that are common on the streets." ... "We all know there is a problem, and now, we need to work toward a solution," Carroll said.
- merricksb 8y agoDiscussed 1 day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17443550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17443550