<story><title>Largest Homeless Camp In US is in Silicon Valley</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/the-jungle-largest-homeless-camp-in-us-2013-8?op=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bowlofpetunias</author><text>For me, personally, this cancels out anything good about Silicon Valley. This is why I really don&amp;#x27;t give a crap why SV is such a great place for tech entrepreneurs. If this is the price, I rather live in a place where people have the decency to compromise their ambition a little bit in favor of those less fortunate.&lt;p&gt;And I&amp;#x27;m far from a socialist. I would like many things in my country to be way more libertarian, and on a personal level I&amp;#x27;m as selfish as the next guy.&lt;p&gt;But there&amp;#x27;s a line, a line of common decency and civilization, and this is so far beyond that it&amp;#x27;s obscene.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justin_vanw</author><text>You clearly have no idea what is going on here, and you should find out before you casually slander everyone that lives here.&lt;p&gt;The people that live in SV are VERY generous.  The consequence is, we have a huge population of homeless people that moved here because the weather is mild and the people are generous, making being homeless here far less terrible than, say, New York or Chicago or Cleveland or Phoenix or even LA.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really easy to accuse a large and varying group of people of living purely for avarice, especially when you clearly have no idea what you&amp;#x27;re talking about.  What are you doing about the homeless problem?  Making snide comments on HN that scapegoat other people.&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-20/national/41427596_1_northern-california-rawson-neal-psychiatric-hospital-patients&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;articles.washingtonpost.com&amp;#x2F;2013-08-20&amp;#x2F;national&amp;#x2F;41427...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5221311&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;templates&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;story.php?storyId=5221311&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Homeless-problem-lingers-as-S-F-spends-millions-3173290.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sfgate.com&amp;#x2F;bayarea&amp;#x2F;matier-ross&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;Homeless-p...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/the-astonishing-decline-of-homelessness-in-america/279050/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;archive&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;the-asto...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Largest Homeless Camp In US is in Silicon Valley</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/the-jungle-largest-homeless-camp-in-us-2013-8?op=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bowlofpetunias</author><text>For me, personally, this cancels out anything good about Silicon Valley. This is why I really don&amp;#x27;t give a crap why SV is such a great place for tech entrepreneurs. If this is the price, I rather live in a place where people have the decency to compromise their ambition a little bit in favor of those less fortunate.&lt;p&gt;And I&amp;#x27;m far from a socialist. I would like many things in my country to be way more libertarian, and on a personal level I&amp;#x27;m as selfish as the next guy.&lt;p&gt;But there&amp;#x27;s a line, a line of common decency and civilization, and this is so far beyond that it&amp;#x27;s obscene.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>temphn</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a silly response. There are seven million people in the Bay Area. A tiny fraction are homeless. Try lifting up an adult human being sometime. It&amp;#x27;s not easy. These people are frequently mentally ill, addicted to drugs, or otherwise incapable of taking care of themselves. Example:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/former-business-owner-homeless-in-silicon-valley-2013-8?op=1#ixzz2dZIyTTZj&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;former-business-owner-homeles...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  She ended up homeless when she turned to California&amp;#x27;s 
  shelter network and hated it. ... Five years ago she moved 
  into The Jungle and says she has no regrets.
  &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
If you think differently, I recommend you go down there and try to lift them out of poverty. Once it&amp;#x27;s your responsibility, you&amp;#x27;ll quickly find there is a reason they are living like that.</text></comment>