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Ok so to state the obvious and it's insane to compare us to el salvador and seriously suggest we should become even more of a prison state than we already are.
by diogenes4 3y ago
Ok so to state the obvious and it's insane to compare us to el salvador and seriously suggest we should become even more of a prison state than we already are.
Secondly, part of the reason we have such a high crime rate is our high imprisonment rate, as el salvador will discover. If you remove all legal avenues to survival you create crime.
Meanwhile, the actually obvious measures—i.e. actually fighting poverty in good faith—is so anathema to american culture people would rather watch people shit in the street than watch their housing valuation rise slower or, god forbid, drop.
- Georgelemental 3y agoDo you have any empirical evidence to support your assertions? > watch their housing valuation rise slower or, god forbid, drop I'm a YIMBY, the rent is too high. But YIMBYism only works if laws are enforced, otherwise you just get universal disorder.
- diogenes4 3y agoI'm not sure what YIMBYism is beyond giving cash away to developers, tbh, nor what it has to do with laws being enforced. They seem like orthogonal concepts at first blush.
- Georgelemental 3y ago> Giving cash away to developers By "YIMBYism" I just mean "making it legal for developers to develop"—no cash transfers necessary. When more housing gets built, housing prices go down (supply and demand), which helps alleviate problems like homelessness. However, one of the biggest reasons why policies that reduce housing costs face political opposition is that people fear that lower costs will attract criminals to the neighborhood. By arresting and imprisoning the criminals, you neutralize this source of opposition. In short, locking up the bad guys is a necessary step to "fight poverty in good faith".