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Funny you all think I am blaming the "rich". I am not, I am blaming a mindset. This is a mindset held by rich, middle-class, and poor alike. If you all can tel

Funny you all think I am blaming the "rich". I am not, I am blaming a mindset. This is a mindset held by rich, middle-class, and poor alike. If you all can tell me why, if not for the people, that California is suffering so much (homelessness, drought, wildfires) I am open to a suggestion.

epistasis 4y ago
I didn't see you blaming a mindset, I see you blaming the people that were leaving. I would like to hear the mindset you blame. Personally, I blame the mindset of trying to keep people out, keep people away, and of not welcoming all the infrastructural changes we need in order to accommodate population growth from immigration. To me that means more dense, mixed use housing, in transit corridors. And when I say transit corridor I don't mean freeways, I mean trains and maybe busses. This lack of housing is the direct cause of nearly all our homelessness. We just don't have places for people, so tons and tons of people have commutes longer than they should be (more traffic), and tons of people crowd into homes that are way too small. Homelessness is just the most visible end route of that. The more expensive housing is, the greater flow of people into homelessness. It's not poverty rates that cause this, it's high housing costs. And the only only only way to deal with the high housing costs is to get rid of the idea that we have to keep people out, and start building tons of dense housing. Dense housing greatly reduces water usage while accommodating more people. Another mindset I blame is giving everything to somebody just because they got their first. So that's why we have farmers, who use 80% of CA water, growing massive amounts of alfalfa, instead of allowing people to use that water. Drought and wildfire are the consequences of climate change. That is definitely the fault of those with the mindset that everybody has to drive and live in isolated single family homes, to the point that they ban apartment buildings in nearly all of the state.

epistasis 4y ago

I didn't see you blaming a mindset, I see you blaming the people that were leaving. I would like to hear the mindset you blame. Personally, I blame the mindset of trying to keep people out, keep people away, and of not welcoming all the infrastructural changes we need in order to accommodate population growth from immigration. To me that means more dense, mixed use housing, in transit corridors. And when I say transit corridor I don't mean freeways, I mean trains and maybe busses. This lack of housing is the direct cause of nearly all our homelessness. We just don't have places for people, so tons and tons of people have commutes longer than they should be (more traffic), and tons of people crowd into homes that are way too small. Homelessness is just the most visible end route of that. The more expensive housing is, the greater flow of people into homelessness. It's not poverty rates that cause this, it's high housing costs. And the only only only way to deal with the high housing costs is to get rid of the idea that we have to keep people out, and start building tons of dense housing. Dense housing greatly reduces water usage while accommodating more people. Another mindset I blame is giving everything to somebody just because they got their first. So that's why we have farmers, who use 80% of CA water, growing massive amounts of alfalfa, instead of allowing people to use that water. Drought and wildfire are the consequences of climate change. That is definitely the fault of those with the mindset that everybody has to drive and live in isolated single family homes, to the point that they ban apartment buildings in nearly all of the state.