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> The public toilet will be built by union workers who will “earn a living wage and benefits,” San Francisco doesn't owe anything to the tradespeople. When you
by melony 4y ago
> The public toilet will be built by union workers who will “earn a living wage and benefits,”
San Francisco doesn't owe anything to the tradespeople. When you share a border with Mexico, there is absolutely no reason not to outsource.
Almost every city that can rapidly scale up infrastructure have access to some type of cheap labour. The rapid construction in the middle east and asia didn't happen by using union labor for everything. Nobody likes talking about the elephant in the room but that doesn't make it any less true.
Most of the red tape and bureaucracy come from having too much local rights and democracy.
If you can't build housing cheaply, then no amount of union rights and progressive policies would reduce the amount of homeless people.
- hotpotamus 4y agoDoes San Fransisco owe anything to anyone?
- BobbyJo 4y agoSan Francisco, the government, owes the constituents it's meant to serve, and whom pay its taxes, literally everything. San Francisco, the city and community, as a society, owes what anyone in the world owes everyone else: an ethical existence.
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- colpabar 4y agoAgreed. They should honestly just use prison labor.
- ruined 4y agoi mean, the city has already hired police officers, who are armed. we know they're not solving murders or catching thieves, so i'm sure there's plenty of time to round up a work crew from the local population that will benefit from the toilet