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Everyone knows that America's big cities and especially San Francisco live in their own financial bubbles.
Average rent in the City by the Bay is nearly four times greater than the US average, coming in at $3,750 a month for a one-bedroom apartment. The cost of living is 80 per cent higher than the rest of America. A typical cup of coffee costs a demented $6 – and some will charge a mind-boggling $20. The internet surge of the past few years has only deepened the problem: tech bros earning six-figure salaries have edged out working families, and homelessness, despite a slight retreat recently, remains high.
But among all the issues that have been rudely visited upon San Francisco, the one that has rich people most riled up is also the most human: shit. As in other people's shit. Dog shit, too, but mostly human shit.
Thanks to the impossible cost of living in the city and a repeated refusal by residents to cough up enough money to deal with the jump in homeless folk, more people that[sic] ever before are living on the streets with no where to go at night and – thanks to no one wanting to dirty up wonderfully clean and luxurious shopping centers and office buildings – no where to go (as in go) during the day. The result: shit. Tons of it.
"I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than I've ever seen growing up here," said the city's new mayor London Breed recently. "That is a huge problem and we are not just talking about from dogs – we’re talking about from humans."
And so San Francisco has decided to deal with it in the only way it knows how: pay others to erase the problem from its sight. But before you wonder who on earth would accept a job cleaning up other people's excrement in one of the most expensive cities in the world, consider this: it pays well. Really well.
[...] All of which means that if you are lucky enough to grab a coveted spot on the Poop Patrol – it's a ten-person crew with its own minivan – you will earn a base salary of $71,760 a year. Add in benefits including health insurance, pension and so on and it brings the package to a rather enticing $184,678 a year.
Source: www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/25/san_francisco_clean_up/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 26 2018, @08:40PM (4 children)
when a person is homeless, there is no other option except doing things 'in public'
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 26 2018, @08:45PM (2 children)
If you can't pay for your own place on your own terms, then you need to submit to the taxpayers' place on the taxpayers' terms; if you're found sleeping on the streets, then you need to be persuaded (forcibly if necessary) to go to a community for homeless people where you can be either treated for your mental troubles or hand-held until you're clean and skilled enough to re-integrate.
Call these places "re-education" camps if you like. Stay there forever if you need to, but you'll have to live according to the taxpayers' rules—curfews, control over "lights out", sleep times, wake times, meal times, bathing times, etc.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 26 2018, @08:54PM (1 child)
and if there's no space at a homeless shelter, where do you go? (always no space at the few places that try to help)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 26 2018, @09:01PM
The government needs to enforce property rights, and if that means spending gobs of resources to build massive complexes to handle these people, then so be it—this would be one of the few actually reasonable purposes of a government.
Help those who will help themselves, but primarily just move non-functioning people out of the way of the rest of society.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday August 26 2018, @08:53PM
San Francisco should put up a commieblock or allocate an existing building to house the homeless for free. If, however, those homeless fail one of their random drug-tests (Marihuana excluded) or breathalyzer tests, then they will be executed as burdens upon society.
But worse than the homeless are all the totally righteous liberals who live there. Silicon Valley should collectively be forced to register as political agents and taxed up the ass until they shut their fat fucking elitest mouths about what everybody else should believe. And we need to levy huge property taxes on urban elites, the taxes of which will depend on the homeless headcount of the vicinity.