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If Bezos can afford it, the government can afford it. So why don't they do it?
by ZephyrBlu 5y ago
If Bezos can afford it, the government can afford it. So why don't they do it?
- Sebguer 5y agoMainly because our government is entirely captive to people like Bezos.
- effingwewt 5y agoVery true. Or, you know, if rich people and corps actually paid taxes. So disgusting the people that defend the rich/super-rich (here its not rich- 'I only make 150k+ stock/yr, so I'm not rich!'). Min wage is what 15k/year, but yea 10x that isn't rich. Reminds me of back in the 'everyone make a startup' days where CEOs got away with murder and some people on HN would just hand-wave it all away, because they wanted to be that CEO one day. That's kinda gone now and its s/CEO/Rich asshole.
- freen 5y agoAsk the GOP. Sane countries house their people. It ends of saving huge amounts of money. Single unhoused person with chronic illness can cost a city in excess of a million dollars a year. Some people can’t countenance the “wrong” folks getting help they don’t “deserve”. Or that somehow help will discourage entrepreneurship. If that truly was the case they’d tax inheritances, but it’s not. The cruelty is the point.
- freen 5y agoNyc does do it: housing is a right in NYC. You need a place to sleep, we give you one. It’s not great, because again, GOP, but it’s better than sleeping rough.
- freen 5y agoThe terrible truth is that so much of industry relies on the precariousness of its employees: Walmart is the largest beneficiary of food stamps in the country.