Quote from: John of Wallan on Dec 18, 2023, 06:27 PMMy son has a small homeless tent city next to the biggest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere...
Not surprisingly. malls and shopping districts are always where the homeless set up their tents. Since they mostly do not own cars, they need to live somewhere close to where they can acquire food. Which then makes you wonder why NYC, which has decades of experience with the homeless, would try and set up a big homeless encampment on Floyd Bennett airfield, miles from the nearest shopping? I suppose they must bring in food each day to feed the residents, but it's hard to imagine just how awful that stuff is. Then they also plug in a no alcohol rule. So you can't get a beer, or cigarettes either. They can't really expect this to succeed, can they?
QuoteJust started last 12 months as interest rates are biting...
Not coincidentally, ABC headline: Australian migrant population growth hits all-time high as borders reopen
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-29/australian-migrant-population-growth-hits-all-time-record-high/102281798
Gee, I wonder why people cant find a rental let alone a house they can afford....
Need to grow to keep the ponzi scheme going.
Need more taxes.
Need more cheap labour.
Need to prop up asset prices.
Fuck society and the environment.
All the standard reasons why Economic Growth is required, except no matter how much you grow, the problems never go away, they just get bigger. Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
So what we have here repeated thousands of times over is people leaving one place which is failing for one reason or another and piling in somewhere else until it gets overwhelmed. There's no planning at all, I suppose under the assumption the Wisdom of the Market will take care of it. Except it never does take care of it.
I wonder how long before the homeless situation reaches Critical Mass? At some point riots will break out. I wonder if an AI program can model that?
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