The utter lack of any sense of community, empathy, or self-reflection (not to mention data-based logic—this is a ceo?) is astonishing yet so typical. Good on for following up on this, more of this in tech press please? breakermag.com/kraken-ceo-say
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I can't even look at this stuff anymore, it just makes me feel so angry and powerless. These people are monsters and I just don't relate to their mentality at all
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I hate giving attention to these types and traumatizing (myself and others) this way, sorry! I just think it was noteworthy that the tech press came after him a bit for this vile nonsense.
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I didn’t notice any tech press coming after me but if I didn’t care, I wouldn’t be calling out this immoral, economically unsustainable approach to solving this problem, nor would I be calling out the enabling bahavior which only makes the problem worse.
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"Crack zombies" is definitely the parlance of someone who cares. Go home, nobody wants you here.
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So, you guys have no intellectual retort to my critique of this shit show? Fine but “go home”?.. zombies welcome, employers pack up and take your jobs back across the border where, presumably, you came from. No economic activity desired in SF!
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If you hate it here, leave. If your response to human suffering is disgust instead of compassion, you need a therapist. Your bigotry isn't an intellectual exercise, it's a moral failing.
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Compassion is not enabling. Sure makes you feel good though, doesn’t it? A lot easier than tough love, doing the hard things it actually takes to truly help people.
There is plenty of refutation to your point. My site provides it daily. We could start with: our homeless services are statistically extremely successful. They have been overwhelmed by the opioid epidemic, the influx of tech workers, and cuts due to tax breaks for rich.
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Up to 70% of those currently homeless are longtime San Francisco residents. Almost 50% of young homeless identify as LGBT and most were fleeing harmful environments (ie kicked out for being gay)
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Homeless recidivism is extremely low, mostly because of providing housing, and most housing comes with access to basic services to prevent recidivism -- there is no "give them a house and they just wander the streets looking for money" canard.
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1000s of people in SF have been successful housed due to our very efficient nonprofit housing sector. Prop C is very clear about exactly how the money is to be used. We are overwhelmed by crisis right now that has national and international roots.
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Dehumanizing people by calling them animals and zombies is one of the basic tenants of fascism, and I wonder what your "solution" to homeless ness actually is? To round everyone and put them in prison?
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They claim that the solution is to reintegrate everyone back into the mainstream economy, ignoring the fact that many homeless folks are chronically ill, elderly, and/or disabled and will never be able to work, and will in fact need lifelong palliative care. Neoliberal fantasy.
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I think any of us can look at ourselves and our family members or friends and see what addiction and mental can do and how it's not some moral scourge. There are solutions to individuals' needs. But it takes money. Not mere disgust and some righteous libertarian-lite campaign.
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