Posted on 02/02/2020 4:21:12 AM PST by C19fan
That’s why you have to laugh at these little SJWs at Google, Twitter and Facebook. If they really cared about anything but themselves they would be out there in their off time cleaning up. They would demand their bosses donate money to help these people. That’s why nobody takes them seriously, they wish for the stars while ignoring the urine and feces at their feet. How can you save the earth when you can’t even save the people in your own city.
“ Each day, up to 30 people stroll in and openly steal goods, costing him hundreds of dollars.”
Being a lefty, I’m surprised the shopkeeper hasn’t instituted the old Soviet model of retail. The customer goes to one clerk and places his order. Then he goes to the next clerk and pays for everything. Finally, he goes to the disbursement clerk, shows his receipt, and receives his goods.
That would reduce theft, allowing him to afford to provide employment at a living wage for the clerks and stock pickers. A leftist’s retail dream!
Do they also defecate in the aisles?
Also, how much does it cost him to clean up the excrement? And how about the toilet paper that they use?
...just wondering...
True. But there is no question the tech giants contribute to homelessness in places with high concentration of tech companies like San Francisco, Seattle etc.
Essentially firms like Google drive up rents and home prices so high that “normal” folks just can't afford them.
https://www.equaltimes.org/homeless-in-silicon-valley-how-the#.Xjb0yB7LddY
Well, that answers my next question.
No, only the part that has succumbed to the Decadence of Western Civilization, i.e. that controlled by Democrats and other "liberals" ("progressives", whatever the nom du jour happens to be).
The rest of America is healthy! Note the size and enthusiasm of the Trump Rallies! MAGA!
I couldn't get outta that "beautiful city by the bay, where Tony Bennett famously left his heart and which poses as a beacon of progressiveness, has more billionaires per capita than any other on the planet" fast enough!
tech giants
I have made comments here about big business. They do need to be controlled. Have been accused of being an anti capitalist.
Folks, big business is not capitalism.
and the “being controlled” means government for most people. I like Trumps version of control. Get rid of regulations and have competition.
Yes. Obviously those titans are neither as intelligent nor as wise nor as benevolent as they think they are.
But manna from God, Donald Trump, far more intelligent, wise, and benevolent than all of them combined, recognized the problem and--placing in peril everything the the had, all that the had achieved, including luxury, privilege, and an enormous fortune--offered himself to save his beloved America from the destruction of the evil and the misguided--and from the Decadence of Western Civilization.
These titans--and the rest of the misguided--would, if they were half as intelligent and benevolent as they think they are, commit all their resources to the Savior of America: Donald Trump!
Unfortunately, they're probably too stupid to do that.
So much for the intelligence, wisdom, and especially the benevolence of all the titans and other do-gooders who have made the once-Golden State into such a grim joke!
This is a large part of the problem.
However, Middle America has NOT become sensitized! MAGA!
I'm sure you don't, but the rest of America does:
“The difference from what I can read is the aggressiveness, the tent cities, and one has to navigate poop and needles on the streets.”
That’s only part of the picture. “Petty” crime is through the roof. Last year there were 30,000 car break ins. You walk along the Embarcadero and it’s littered with broken car window glass.
Good point. I hadn't considered that connection (nor, it seems, did the author of the original article - although maybe the headline writer did).
So when a small business engages in capitalist competition so successfully that it becomes big, at some point it becomes noncapitalist? Sounds fishy to me.
You make a very good point. I clicked that link hoping to read the story described in the headline. That’s a story worth writing. We didn’t get that. Instead, we got a pretty standard rundown of everything wrong with the Bay Area.
So when a small business engages in capitalist competition so successfully that it becomes big, at some point it becomes noncapitalist? Sounds fishy to me.
Nonresponsive.
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