Food for Thought

[brynndragon]

What do car pollution and homelessness have in common? A hockey-stick-curve instead of a bell-curve and solutions rendered impossible (or at least extremely difficult) by the human psyche: Million-Dollar Murray

Comments

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

I thought the "why people won't like it" bit was the best part of the entire essay - they rest was merely interesting, but that bit explains so much of what we do as a society. Oddly enough, the notion that it was unfair to the homeless folks for assuming that they couldn't be independant and functional came up for me as readily as the notion that it was unfair to people barely getting by but paying their own way.

The thing is, for it to work *someone* had to decide who does and does not get an apartment, which is a situation ripe for abuse (sayeth the person who learned about an innocent getting killed last night by business-as-usual in the political halls of her fair city). The problem, as metahacker is fond of saying, is people.