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It seems to quire naive to give unions all the credit while failing to America’s declining quality compared to Japan and failure to listen to loud market trends.

GM ignoring Deming’s TQM while Japan wholeheartedly embraced this philosophy should be mentioned.

The rapid increase in oil prices and the big 3 ignoring the data and sticking with the “Americans want big gas guzzling cars” philosophy would also be mentioned.

This last one combined with the oil crisis is how Honda killed Harley Davidson, as well as how Toyota and VW killed the big 3. When the oil crisis hit the 15-mile per gallon american behemoths just became irrelevant.

Containerized shipping and a lack of import taxes also had far more to do with the USA losing its doninance.

We wanted cheaper, smaller, more reliable cars. The big 3 wanted to pretend like it was still 1955.

Turkey is the same way. The government says 99.8% of the population are Muslim by default but it’s probably closer to 60%.

Until a few years ago religion was listed on government identification cards. When you’re born your parenrs must state a religion for your birth certificate or it is automatically listed as Muslim.

You had to go through a burdensome official process as an adult to change this, and once you did this you legally admitted to Apostasy, which opens you up to discrimination (and future consequences if the government were to fall to islamists or neo-ottomans).

Furthermore, it was very common to be discriminated against by HR departments / hiring managers if Islam was not present on your Kimlik (government ID).

This only went away with recent passport and national id standards changing in their futile attempts to join the EU.

(Consider that Turkey is by far the most liberal and secular Muslim nation.)

Or maybe we give more thought to the feasibility of space colonization and give people the ability to opt out of paying for this kind of adventurism?

I work really hard and would rather my taxes go to helping out those living today, not maybe those living in 1,000 years.

Seems like a potentially great way to transfer a lot of wealth from taxpayers to the aerospace industry for a very long time with little oversight or roi.

England is cold and grey, and the food sucks.

Every mediterranean country is littered with Brits, especially retirees / pensioners.

Even public prisons are primarily run and populates through the formiddable lobbying power of police and prison guard unions. Their influence is far more insidiuous than that of the comparably small for-profit prison industry.

Also an opportunity to question your union stance.

Madoff would have been less likely to go to jail had he made off with poor peoples’ money instead of that of rich people.

> They’re also not entitled to that. In a democracy the many decide.

We did decide, and continue to do so in supervisor meetings and in the ballot box. You might want to read up on federalism.

It’s quite rude for you to say my home is not remarkable or worth preserving. You’ve never even seen it. You know nothing of my tightknit, diverse community which cares about things of more importance than ipos and user engagement.

“Droid housing” is san francisco slang for the soulless eyesore boxes containing cramped, slapshodnfaux “lofts”, usually painted a bluish slate grey or salmon pink on the outside, entirely devoid of character or quality.

Thankfully San Francisco’s direct democracy works well to keep this city small. There are many soulless sprawling cities which are seismically stable, devoid of character, flat and inhabited by people who don’t care enough to resist.

> Well that's just inefficiency or graft. The rest of the world is able to achieve far more for far less cost.

Citation?

> Who's our? Generally voters tend to be older, wealthier and landowners. The large pile of younger, less wealthy, more transient renters isn't represented well. I don't think the outcome means the system works.

That’s how democracy works. If you don’t vote, you don’t have a voice.

3x as dense??????? We are already 17,000 per square mile. New York is 28,000 per m^2.

You seriously think San Francisco would be livable at 51,000 pe m^2? It would literally cost $500bn in infrastructure investment to make that possible just inside the city.

101 and 280 would need to be 15 lames wide each, bulldozing 1/8 of the peninsula. We would need a half a dozen new transbay bridges and tunnels.

SFO would probably need another couple of runways and terminals.

You’re talking trillions of dollars in investment because tech companies prefer open office spaces to Zoom.

Sure, but we don’t want that. There is an incredible amount of space in the bay area which could be turned into droid housing and office buildings. ALL of those places have cheaper real estate, fewer homeless people (the #2 complaint of everybody here) and warmer weather.

It’s 2021 and Covid-19 has shown that remote work is viable.

Back in the day large tech companies like Sun, Peoplesoft and Cisco built offices all over the bay so that people had the option to work at facilities close to their home.

SF wasn’t even a significant tech destination before 2007.

My wife and I are actually moving to Barcelona when Covid is over, under the Non-Lucrative residency permit. If you think San Franciscans have a Nimby attitude and hate outsiders then you should go visit Barcelona.

“Unremarkabe single family housing”. So what, you want to take peoples’ housing via eminent domain and build more of the hideously dugly condo boxes they’ve stuffed all over SOMA and the Missiom?

I happen to love my unremarkable home in the Sunset in which my family has lived for 55 years.