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There's 100s of different hypothesis for the cause, but it's all just a different flavor of wealth inequality. The rich are getting richer and the poor are gett

There's 100s of different hypothesis for the cause, but it's all just a different flavor of wealth inequality. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. This promotes all types of corruption. The rich can usually avoid the stench and filth of the poor so they don't invest their money in solving it. Now the poorness is festering. This is a problem that will not get solved without taxes, and it probably won't get solved without taxes at the federal level. Americans will not let themselves be taxed more and so the consequences are more of this for the foreseeable future.

logicchains 4y ago
>There's 100s of different hypothesis for the cause, but it's all just a different flavor of wealth inequality This is simply untrue. There are cities with more wealth inequality (Singapore, Shanghai, Dubai..) that have no such crime or filth, because the police deal with it aggressively.
- modo_mario 4y ago
  I think Singapore has a very notable affordable housing system (There's some short docus on youtube that should be easy to find) which probably holds back a lot of such problems. In Dubai I believe the locals are also pretty damn well off whilst an insane amount of the population is expatriates which I'd imagine get kicked out the moment they're seen as a problem or lose their job, etc. No clue about Shangai. I know Chinas police in other cities can be rather heavy handed (beating people out of bars with batons where words could have probably done the trick for example) Plenty of other factors can play a role tho. From Chinas political patronage system leading to leaders having their jobs/prospects tied to not letting such issues go too far to a less individualistic culture or simply lots of low bar employment options and housing. Better a run down cramped place shared with too many people (You can find some shocking images of this from shangai) than the street.
fallingknife 4y ago
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Dig1t 4y ago
This problem was created by liberal policies, in typical liberal fashion, the only way to solve the problem is _even more_ liberal policies? Despite having control of every layer of government they still somehow are blaming someone else. San Francisco wasn't always like this.

logicchains 4y ago

>There's 100s of different hypothesis for the cause, but it's all just a different flavor of wealth inequality This is simply untrue. There are cities with more wealth inequality (Singapore, Shanghai, Dubai..) that have no such crime or filth, because the police deal with it aggressively.

modo_mario 4y ago
I think Singapore has a very notable affordable housing system (There's some short docus on youtube that should be easy to find) which probably holds back a lot of such problems. In Dubai I believe the locals are also pretty damn well off whilst an insane amount of the population is expatriates which I'd imagine get kicked out the moment they're seen as a problem or lose their job, etc. No clue about Shangai. I know Chinas police in other cities can be rather heavy handed (beating people out of bars with batons where words could have probably done the trick for example) Plenty of other factors can play a role tho. From Chinas political patronage system leading to leaders having their jobs/prospects tied to not letting such issues go too far to a less individualistic culture or simply lots of low bar employment options and housing. Better a run down cramped place shared with too many people (You can find some shocking images of this from shangai) than the street.

fallingknife 4y ago

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Dig1t 4y ago

This problem was created by liberal policies, in typical liberal fashion, the only way to solve the problem is _even more_ liberal policies? Despite having control of every layer of government they still somehow are blaming someone else. San Francisco wasn't always like this.