<story><title>San Francisco, now with more dystopia</title><url>https://www.mhudack.com/blog/2017/10/1/san-francisco-now-with-more-dystopia</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>theyregreat</author><text>The root of the US problem: it’s turning into a poor country because the vast majority of the greedy rich people hoarding trillions, that used to go to middle class as wages and to general government funds, and their corrupt politicians enabling this vicious cycle.&lt;p&gt;Social welfare and mental healthcare exist so people aren’t crawling on the street. Every living person needs a basic level of respect, care and dignity... if the can’t provide for themselves, falling through the cracks is not a solution but a source of many more, more expensive and worse, problems. So socialism for the rich and nothing for the poor isn’t sustainable and people will eventually go “French Revolution.” A stable democratic country has to balance competing tyrannies: rich vs. middle vs. poor, country vs. city and community vs. individual.</text></comment>
<story><title>San Francisco, now with more dystopia</title><url>https://www.mhudack.com/blog/2017/10/1/san-francisco-now-with-more-dystopia</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>5706906c06c</author><text>San Francisco has become polarizing over the past decade(+,) though SOMA used to be pretty much a shanty town in the 80s: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ww2.hdnux.com&amp;#x2F;photos&amp;#x2F;42&amp;#x2F;55&amp;#x2F;37&amp;#x2F;9099221&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;rawImage.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ww2.hdnux.com&amp;#x2F;photos&amp;#x2F;42&amp;#x2F;55&amp;#x2F;37&amp;#x2F;9099221&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;rawImage.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Mayor Dianne Feinstein leads a group on a tour of Shantytown at Seventh and Berry streets in 1986. The group includes her press secretary Tom Eastham (left), Public Health Director David Werdegar and Thomas Dalton, “mayor of Shantytown.”&lt;p&gt;One more: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;janet-delaney-south-of-market&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wired.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;janet-delaney-south-of-market&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>