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Arresting people doesn't address the reason they committing crimes in the first place. The issue is poverty and wealth inequality. The truth is tech ruined the
by amrocha 4y ago
Arresting people doesn't address the reason they committing crimes in the first place. The issue is poverty and wealth inequality.
The truth is tech ruined the city. SF used to be a city of misfits, who don't usually have high income. Tech workers started flooding the city, drove up rents, and these misfits ended up homeless. Once you're homeless it's a struggle, some get back on their feet but some start abusing drugs. Government support programs are terribly run, so nobody uses them. Let the situation go on for a few years and you get SF.
It's not just SF though, it's any city in North America that has had booming rents the past couple decades. Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, SF.
If you look at Tokyo, rents are low and jobs are plentiful. The biggest city in the world has less than 4000 homeless people living in it.
- yurikoif 4y agoIt’s just simply false. Crimes in SF were bad even before the dot com era. Remember the roof top Koreans? I’d give police & drug policies more credit for this
- faanghacker 4y agoRoof Koreans were in LA not SF.
- amrocha 4y agoAs the other comment pointed out, you got your cities mixed up. I hope this serves as a wake up call to you that your biases are preventing you from seeing the whole picture.
- yurikoif 4y agoya you guys are right ab this one
- yurikoif 4y agobut still, it does not prove much of a bias in my point of view. SF was known for homelessness & crime & drug crisis back before the tech boom. it used to be the veterans with mental illness and nowadays teens or common people with such.
- amrocha 4y agoI'm sure you can see how after your first justification fell through, you just came up with another one that supports your point of view. This is called post hoc reasoning, or, in tech, decision-based data-making.