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"Because one side wants to treat the underlying causes, which it sees as poverty, inequality, lack of good education, and lack of opportunities" That side has
by rahimnathwani 4y ago
"Because one side wants to treat the underlying causes, which it sees as poverty, inequality, lack of good education, and lack of opportunities"
That side has been running San Francisco for a long long time. It spends $22k per public school student per year, but doesn't manage to teach even half of them to read or write at grade level (which isn't even a high bar).
Either that side doesn't want to solve the problems, or some combination of individual incentives, incompetence and lack of second-order thinking prevents it from achieving its objectives.
Of course, if some of these problems were to disappear, this would reduce the ability for politicians to funnel money to cronies via their non-profit organizations.
- jjav 4y ago> Either that side doesn't want to solve the problems, or some combination of individual incentives, incompetence and lack of second-order thinking prevents it from achieving its objectives. Homelessness cannot ever be solved at the city, or even state, level. Homeless will, very rationally, tend to migrate and cluster in areas where their lives are a little less bad. Homelessness can only truly be solved with a nation-wide consistent policy. Anything less simply amounts to shuffling them from one location to another.
- readthenotes1 4y agoIs that true? I never saw any homeless in Shanghai, and only one sidewalk beggar. I asked what they did to make it so, "We don't talk about that".