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Greed is more destructive than envy.
The legendary urbanist Jane Jacobs once remarked that new ideas come from old buildings, the types of places you can alter without permission because no one cares about them. This is one reason why so many garage startups and garage bands and artists spilling paint in discarded warehouse lofts have left their mark on the world. The true creative class can’t afford to rent expensive new studios.
San Francisco smells, in general, like an unclean urinal at a gas station.
Goran_K saysSan Francisco smells, in general, like an unclean urinal at a gas station.
Maybe your new Mayor will back spreading white urinal mints about.
Just learned about this bit of San Fran Freako History:
Spooky shit!
Damn, they hit on the right answer, and then went on to the wrong one!
The right answer is the land-value tax. The wrong answer is to tax productive people to redistribute their money to others.
Land ownership is not productive. It is the appropriate object of taxation.
Work is productive. It should not be taxed at all.