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Comment by justinzollars | Hacker News Reader

I'm sorry but this is so f*cking stupid.

As a Bay Area resident my priorities are the cost of housing, cleaning our dirty streets and alleviating traffic congestion.

This is an example of progressivism gone awry. Solving the basics is incredibly important. Our quality of life is in decline (in the bay area) and this is the best our politicians can do?

I'm enraged.

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Your municipality does not have the legal or financial mechanisms to solve homelessness, housing, and traffic congestion. They are all natural consequences of economic and political decisions made higher up the food chain.

Yet they keep raising taxes?

Sum that point of view across an entire population and we have the problems we have today.

Your perspective bores me.

What baffles me is the perspective that: "Because <city> can't fix these problems, everything that <city> does is stupid and useless."

The city is responsible for the housing development. Not all of it but a lot of it. Same for homeless: the city can decide to address the problem by investing on affordable housing and assistance programs

Also get your data: if you don’t have free meal, you bring from home. This is what the vast majority does. And at the end of the day, this is a matter of freedom: if company X decides to offers free meal, what’s the problem? It creates jobs and attract people! Is this the country of freedom or this place incompetent administration wants to control what companies and people should do?

No the vast majority of workers targeted by this do not - even in developing countries like India "tiffin wallas" bring food to office workers.

Truth be told, housing issues are very often local: zoning that prevents housing from being built.

Exhibit A: https://shift.newco.co/letter-of-resignation-from-the-palo-a...

I find it curious that you attribute it to "progressivism"

- I stepped in dog shit

- F@kin' liberals

This doesn't have to do anything with progressivism, unless you just use it as umbrella term for everything you don't like.

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