naeemtee

Good lord, thank you for this. It astounds me how completely off-the-mark progressive thinking around poverty is - probably because it's a) not data-driven in the least, and b) primarily championed by people who grew up middle class.

Poverty in the US is NOT the same as poverty in Somalia. It's not even the same as poverty in Estonia. Childhood hunger is the best example - malnourished children in the US are in that state because of abuse.

Anyone that grew up in a truly shitty North American neighbourhood in the last 20 years knows - the people that were suffering were not suffering because of a lack of resources. They made bad decisions, or had health problems, or were abuse victims.

Your comment just proved the other guys point. You name drop a few politicians for not having "merit" because you disagree with them.

Kinda abandoned any semblance of subtlety at the end there lol

This is great.

> Why would anyone be upset at a company shooting themselves in the foot?

You've stabbed at the hilariously backwards logic behind the "employer discrimination" crowd. If a company choses to discriminate against able-bodied people because of factors irrelevant to their performance, that just means more pickings for their competitors.

The return of the King is one of the best movies of the last 20+ years. Whine about the Hobbit all you want, but LOTR is the greatest trilogy ever made and Peter Jackson is a legend.

Wait, why is a washing machine cheaper than hand-washing?

Singapore has one of the world's highest income inequalities and faces virtually none of those problems. Distilling it down to "income inequality" is reductionist, political scapegoating.

Hey! I'm building something that's pretty much exactly this, and I'm curious if your neighbourhood has some kind of community watchgroup that would want to try prototype something like this?

I'm actually in the process of building exactly what you're describing and would love to chat. Would you mind shooting me an email? naeem.tee@gmail.com

To be fair, in that situation the tribe can be reached because they DO have the tech: ears, eyes, etc. So we're still contacting them via tech they have.