Such is the consequence of a housing crisis and the downstream homelessness, despair, and of course mental illness.
Don't give someone a roof and a toilet and they may just find any old place to go!
Don't give someone a roof and a toilet and they may just find any old place to go!
People who pretend that SF having drug addicts with open sores assaulting each other and the rest of the citizenry is a housing crisis disgust me. It's a policy which actively aids and abets human misery.
The implication being that without policies that are friendly to struggling/addicted/ill/homeless folks there would somehow be less of them?
If people shall care about collective goods, there needs to be an actual collective spirit first. Places where this type of public infrastructure actually works are also places where people realized that you can't create a good society by letting the rich hoard their wealth and build walls while the homeless are beaten instead of helped.
SF is a truly dystopian place in a certain sense.
From people actively soiling the facilities, to people not giving a fuck about leaving a mess (making a 'seat cover' out of tp, then leaving it on the floor; not cleaning after themselfes), to people with a 'not my job' egocentrical attitude. Those are studied engineers with good salaries, workplace stability. In Europe. The facilities are nice, bright and clean. Until those people leave them...
From these lifelong experiences, I would guess there is a certain, not so small amount of people that are secretly incapable of altruistic behavior. For numerous reasons. Those ruin it for the rest of us.
For this reason, as brutal and as it seems at first glance, I would really like to see such people identified and punished harshly for their parasitic selfishness.
A nation needs a unified direction with unified values. Eating different food is fine. Disagreeing about core tenets of society like free speech, equal rights, and law and justice, is not.
You can get all moral about it with his opinion or her opinion or whatever and I get that happiness != money and all that jazz. But in general the one quantitative metric closest to the concept of "winning" is money.
Those 2 cannot be true if the blame is on capitalism.
These economies lean towards socialism more then capitalism. In fact you can even call them socialist governments.
Homeless people are coddled and taken care of. Free syringes so they don't get HIV. Homeless people aren't beaten. If you're homeless SF is paradise.
Where can someone on a bartenders wage buy a house and work where they work? Where can they even buy land?
Yet there are vast swaths of land unused. Countless gigantic homes take up enormous spaces. And all the policy protects the people with those homes and property instead of the majority of people.
We don’t have a homeless crisis. We have a resource allocation crisis.