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I agree with your first paragraph unironically. If we don't measure it as an important problem, it probably does not deserve disproportionate resources. There
by asveikau 4y ago
I agree with your first paragraph unironically. If we don't measure it as an important problem, it probably does not deserve disproportionate resources.
There are outliers to that. I think medical research for something like a rare disease is a good one. High cost, and by some metrics, low payout, but worthy. I don't think this recent right wing paranoia about crime is a good example. Especially since the "tough on crime" policies that people want to enact in reaction to it do not work and have a tendency to incarcerate innocent and undeserving people as collateral damage.
- mc32 4y agoIt's not paranoia in SF. It's gotten worse. It's affected poor and middle class working people's quality of life. It's not a clinical, detached exercise. It affects people's ability to pay their bills afford rent, mental health, etc. There is a Reason more a moderate like J Engardio won this time round. People are getting fed up.
- asveikau 4y agoI've spent the last 11 years in SF. It's largely paranoia. It is a funny sight, I do see people who got here more recently than I have are describing things as new, but they are old problems, I've heard the same complaints the whole time. One small anecdote, the first year or two I got here, I felt I was being sized up for muggings a couple times. Has not happened in a long time.