Paris is a great example of a densely populated city with beautiful architecture and urban design that is scalable to human mobility (ie mostly walking)...
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Replying to @SamJ_Coffman @AdeleGermane and
If there’s one policy I think wealthy people could do that makes sense, it’s providing money for grants for city officials to travel across the world and see non car centric urban planning - literally go see it and experience it for 3-4 weeks per year to get a different view.
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Replying to @SamJ_Coffman @AdeleGermane and
Democratic Party has full@control of the government in SF and the Bay Area, from the state government all@the way down to the municipal government. They could enact whatever las they want, yet they haven’t done anything constructive to solve the housing problem to date.
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Replying to @SamJ_Coffman @AdeleGermane and
Ultimately, housing and public services are the responsibility of elected officials who represent their voters. So imo this is a dynamic issue that requires dynamic solutions, not something the wealthy can just solve on their own....
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Replying to @SamJ_Coffman @AdeleGermane and
...sure you could take more money from the wealthy, but they’ll just move away, and then the city is less wealthy and can’t pay its bills. I have no idea what the relationship is between city council and wealthy citizens inside the city, but it seems extremely antagonistic..
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Replying to @SamJ_Coffman @AdeleGermane and
..and lacking trust from both parties. That’s an issue that needs to be addressed, so everyone is moving towards a unified goal if you really do want wealthy citizens to take on more burden.
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Wealthy citizens can fund solutions. No one should have to convince them to help their own city. Marc Benioff is such a billionaire. He has advocated for funding for projects around homelessness. Just imagine if all the other billionaires did the same. Problem solved.
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Replying to @AdeleGermane @SamJ_Coffman and
If only there was a process to streamline such a process in order fund such public schemes. It could be universal, and the amount could be proportionate to people's wealth.
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Replying to @LarryBaxter91 @AdeleGermane and
Lol. To be fair, I think a tax on wealth is generally the correct tax framework - it’s fair, and discourages the accumulation of non productive assets. And the tax liability grows in accordance with net worth. Seems to make sense to me
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Replying to @SamJ_Coffman @LarryBaxter91 and
Sounds good. Have you considered running for city counsel? Or another government position?
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No. I find it to be mostly dysfunctional, but I am interested in creating political coalitions that are more representative of millennial interests. So that is an area I’m starting to work on.
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