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What do you guys think of this - poverty in Silicon Valley?

I `read` it, if you may be so generous. Maybe they should use condoms. Or move. There's the terrible barren midwest that most of these idiots would never consider that have far lower housing prices and cheaper education.
 
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that link fucking sucks. people who make articles in that format should be quartered and drawn.
 
Yeah it sucks, but quite engaging, and I find eye fatigue reduced by at least 46% when reading a story in this format; a break from the norm.

I'm not sure I agree with some communistic ideas that the author proposed to end child poverty, though.
 
SSSnail said:
Yeah it sucks, but quite engaging, and I find eye fatigue reduced by at least 46% when reading a story in this format; a break from the norm.

I'm not sure I agree with some communistic ideas that the author proposed to end child poverty, though.
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obvious answer is obvious: don't have kids you can't afford
 
i heard a janitor working for the city of palo alto can make 60k a year....yet that still gets you qualified for low income housing if you have a family of 4 or more.

But then the low income housing queue is in the thousands and you have to pay a yearly fee to keep your place in queue.
 
Ns1 said:
obvious answer is obvious: don't have kids you can't afford
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This. Every problem I saw listed in that "look at how creative I am, you have to click after every sentence!" document can be attributed to poor planning. Particularly with that first lady.

I'm all for giving these people a 2nd chance, but it's a fine line between that and subsidizing stupid. Kids are expensive, and they aren't a right.
 
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holy slide show, didn't even bother.
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I powered thru the slide show. The payoff ain't there.

I disagree with the author's assertion to just give them money and let them decide and pointing to Native American society as it working. Throwing money at people who don't know what to do with it doesn't work.

Also, if you're low income, move the fuck out of dodge! Silicon Valley ain't for you. Your minimum wage job will go a lot further upstate/downstate or better yet, outside Cali. A bus ticket is cheap...no excuses.

Also the assertion that poor kids grow up with fucked up brain chemistry to ultimately become losers? Jeezus! Seriously? Tell that to the multitude of immigrants/refugees from Africa that witnessed genocide or others throughout history who suffered atrocities BIG time, yet were able to eventually become amazing people in first world countries.

........Typical millennial emo bullshit rhetoric that's emasculating American youth instead of empowering them to stand up and fight. The iron-made "greatest generation" that fought in WWII would laugh at such statements.
 
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dr150 said:
I powered thru the slide show. The payoff ain't there.

I disagree with the author's assertion to just give them money and let them decide and pointing to Native American society as it working. Throwing money at people who don't know what to do with it doesn't work.

Also, if you're low income, move the fuck out of dodge! Silicon Valley ain't for you. Your minimum wage job will go a lot further upstate/downstate or better yet, outside Cali. A bus ticket is cheap...no excuses.

Also the assertion that poor kids grow up with fucked up brain chemistry to ultimately become losers? Jeezus! Seriously? Tell that to the multitude of immigrants/refugees from Africa that witnessed genocide or others throughout history who suffered atrocities BIG time, yet were able to eventually become amazing people in first world countries.

........Typical millennial emo bullshit rhetoric that's emasculating American youth instead of empowering them to stand up and fight. The iron-made "greatest generation" that fought in WWII would laugh at such statements.
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Hey, I'm a millennial and I'm laughing at that slideshow. I also know plenty of other millennials who would do the same. Unlike (judging by appearances) the parents in that slide show a lot of us didn't have the advantage of a booming economy to fuck around in.
 
dr150 said:
I powered thru the slide show. The payoff ain't there.

I disagree with the author's assertion to just give them money and let them decide and pointing to Native American society as it working. Throwing money at people who don't know what to do with it doesn't work.

Also, if you're low income, move the fuck out of dodge! Silicon Valley ain't for you. Your minimum wage job will go a lot further upstate/downstate or better yet, outside Cali. A bus ticket is cheap...no excuses.

Also the assertion that poor kids grow up with fucked up brain chemistry to ultimately become losers? Jeezus! Seriously? Tell that to the multitude of immigrants/refugees from Africa that witnessed genocide or others throughout history who suffered atrocities BIG time, yet were able to eventually become amazing people in first world countries.

........Typical millennial emo bullshit rhetoric that's emasculating American youth instead of empowering them to stand up and fight. The iron-made "greatest generation" that fought in WWII would laugh at such statements.
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I agree with you, housing subsidy isn't going to do it. They need to rewrite some of the building laws in the valley so that they build more high rise apartment complexes. There are too many people and not enough new housing developments. That's why rent is so expensive. They also need more low cost public transportation to transport people from low income areas to high income commercial areas so they can work the "lower value added" jobs.
 
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I agree with you, housing subsidy isn't going to do it. They need to rewrite some of the building laws in the valley so that they build more high rise apartment complexes. There are too many people and not enough new housing developments. That's why rent is so expensive. They also need more low cost public transportation to transport people from low income areas to high income commercial areas so they can work the "lower value added" jobs.
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wait up - you mean if you increase supply, housing prices will decrease? get the fuck out.
 
Man, this is tough. I wonder how a person can solve this complex problem. Oh yeah, I've got it, quit having kids and GTFO of Silicon Valley.
 
The out of control cost of living there is one of the reasons that even though I grew up in that area (San Jose, Fremont) my wife and I left 8 years ago and moved to Raleigh. We were paying over $2000 a month for a small one bedroom apartment. We looked at 900 square foot condos to buy for $500,000. Despite growing up there and loving it we knew we had to get out. So we picked up and left. Here we own a 2000 square foot house and our mortgage is only $1000 a month. I do miss the SF Bay Area though. It will always be my home. I constantly think about moving back but I know it's just not financially feasible.
 
gdansk said:
I `read` it, if you may be so generous. Maybe they should use condoms. Or move. There's the terrible barren midwest that most of these idiots would never consider that have far lower housing prices and cheaper education.
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Moving takes capital and you need to be able to find a job on the other end, never mind other obligations that might also keep someone rooted somewhere. It's not as simple as "move".
 
This area is getting too expensive for its own good, property wise. It's not just poor people, the main issue I can see developing is recent college grads and younger workers looking to live elsewhere when it's time to settle down, which in the long term will skew the age distribution towards old timers who bought houses back in the day, which is not a healthy situation for a tech economy.
 
I'm glad basic income was suggested as a solution, i think that's going to be the future of fighting poverty. Both liberals and conservatives have embraced the idea.
 
Phokus said:
I'm glad basic income was suggested as a solution, i think that's going to be the future of fighting poverty. Both liberals and conservatives have embraced the idea.
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If the democrats would stop torpedoing the minimum guaranteed income bills in committee we would already have one passed into law. Maybe when we get a republican super majority....
 
Move where shit is not so expensive. That's the fucking point of shit being expensive, so people who don't get payed well won't fucking live there.

God damit stop being poor and taking up all the good real-estate; There's LOTS of places you can get by with a family of 5 at 25k /y.
 
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