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GeekSumsMe t1_izt8r85 wrote

Life in an oligarchy contributes to homelessness and related problems.

We are living in another gilded age. Wealth continues to concentrate at the top. Rules are written to support those with power and money.

Corporations are making record profits, while inflation makes it difficult for many to afford basics. Rx prices are the highest in the world.

College was once the ticket to breaking out of poverty, yet tuition rates now make it unaffordable to the unprivileged.

Some were sold BS like "right to work". Wages the went up dramatically for those at the top while remaining stagnant for everyone else.

This should not really be a D vs R issue, both sides continue to get equally fucked.

Requiring the 1% to pay a tax rate equivalent to those paid by the middle class should not be controversial.

The system is rigged, but we've fixed it before and can fix it again, but only once we realize that all of those in power have zero incentives to actually adress the root causes of our growing inequity.

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Hpindu t1_izvkutj wrote

It’s funny you say that about the most liberal state in the US and the one that collects more taxes than any other state (also the one that spends the most on homeless and social programs).

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GeekSumsMe t1_izxbkiv wrote

The shit I brought up is happening everywhere. All of my examples are things that affect everyone.

You forgot to mention that the GDP of CA is greater than the combined economic output of NV, MT, UT, ID, ND, SD & NM.

Also, CA is one of the only states where most of the cities never have deadly weather.

Fox News is trying really hard to make CA seem scary, but it really isn't. Sure they have their problems, but at least they are trying to do something about it. CA spending "the most money" on social programs (BS unless expressed on a per GDP basis) is not the own you think it is.

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Hpindu t1_izxwg98 wrote

Dude, I literally live in California. San Francisco to be precise.

I grew up in Brazil and I can assure that SF is scary. I feel safer in my hometown in Brazil (so called 3rd world) than in California (not everywhere, though). After 9 years living there, they already broke into my house once (in a nice neighborhood in RWC and 3 times into my car in SF).

I don’t know why people keep defending SF like it’s not crazy bad. This is just about ideologies. Admitting that SF is a shithole at the moment, won’t automatically make republicans right and democrats wrong. Maybe there’s just a few things that we should reconsider.

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Jumpshot1370 t1_izyk1cr wrote

Net domestic migration rate per 1,000 inhabitants in 2020-2021:

Florida: 10.14

Texas: 5.77

California: -9.36

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_net_migration

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GeekSumsMe t1_izz0vtf wrote

2020-2021 was not exactly a typical year.

There was a general trend that started during the pandemic of people moving to places with a lower cost of living. The trend has continued, albeit more slowly since as more people work from home or have otherwise evaluated work-life balance. The median price of a home in CA is about $800K.

CA has a major problem with homelessness. Almost every local politician agrees that this is among the most important challenges. However, with housing costs so high, it is a tough nut to crack.

Most societal problems have their roots in poverty, which was my main point.

Since the 1980s almost all economic gains have gone to the wealthy, with middle incomes remaining steady and low incomes actually declining: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/

The bottom 90% earned about 70% of all earnings in 1979. In 2020, the same group earned 60%. Between 1978 and 2020, wages for the top 1% (now >$800k/year) grew by 119%, while the 0.1% (>$3.4 million/year) has water growth of 389%.

This should concern everyone. Trickle down was a lie, told by the rich to make themselves richer.

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