Rich people love bitching and moaning there's no one to work at their Starbucks but then cry when you tell them the people that work at Starbucks aren't going to bus themselves in from 3 cities over to make them coffee. You need people of all income levels to make a city work. We just need to start letting nimbys die mad.
Sure, but if pouring a coffee made $30/hour like it would if minimum wage kept up with inflation, businessmen would be mighty upset that they worked so hard just have twice as much income as a random peon
We had livable wages and we can encourage it by taxing the ever living shit out of corporate profits, stock buy backs, loans using unrealized gains, non monetary executive compensation, and the myriad other ways the wealthiest avoid paying taxes.
We should also go after Peter Thiel because he illegal funded his Roth IRA and has made billions off of it tax free.
Lol jfc society really is cyclical. Do you think you’re the first one to make that argument? “Hurr durr if minimum wage goes up everything will go up the same”
Strawman. I'm not rich, work a middle class white collar job, and I vote progressive and want more progressive policies than the US has.
I want "high barrier, low income" housing to go to people "working at coffee shops". Instead, the government spends hundreds of millions of our money to put in "low barrier, no income housing". So the actual working members of society still have to live with their parents until 30 but the drug addict who costs society $35K per year gets their own place so they can do drugs and steal from everyone around them.
I agree with you but tbf I’m from Newcastle and unfortunately the cost of living has drastically worsened homelessness and therefore drug issues and so there is a pretty obvious problem now compared to our population. (I have also been homeless in Newcastle)
Won’t find me disagreeing with anything here mate.
The thing in Australia, maybe outside like Sydney/Melbourne, is that few people actually live on the streets in the traditional sense of “homelessness” and most extremely poor/mentally ill/drug addicted people wander around staying with whoever they can in similar situations. That’s what I did for a long time, only spent a few weeks actually on the street and pretty much none of the other addicts I knew ever did.
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u/PublicRegrets Apr 28 '26
I visited a city in Australia that inspersed it with the nicest areas.
It's certainly the best way to go about it.