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Stealing alleviates one's personal duress at the expense of someone else's. If they instead worked a real job, they would at least be providing at $18/hr, SF's
by Aunche 3y ago
Stealing alleviates one's personal duress at the expense of someone else's. If they instead worked a real job, they would at least be providing at $18/hr, SF's minimum wage, of services to their community.
SF already spent over a billion dollars on housing alone. People should ensure that is prudently spent rather than asking for even more.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoYears ago, I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. At that time, working a full-time minimum wage job wouldn't cover rent in the cheapest dive I could find listed for San Francisco. At that time, a room in an SRO was like a thousand dollars a month in SF. I've said many time that I believe California is the dumping ground for homeless people across the nation. California has something like 12 percent of the US population and 25 percent of the US homeless population and a high percentage of chronically homeless. I was responding to a comment that opens with You're seeing this everywhere. Chicago, Philadelphia, and so on - although the problem may be worse in San Francisco. The comment wasn't about San Francisco per se and my reply was not about San Francisco per se. The nation as a whole needs to address certain things. San Francisco likely cannot solve this alone, no matter how draconian they are willing to be. People go there for the weather, among other things. That's not a factor policy can resolve.