Opinion: San Diego's growth-based economy has a serious downside [Opinion]
” : Our heartless policies are also mindless and futile because homelessness is an inevitable byproduct of an economy that requires constant growth. Every city spends money and has staff engaged in organized efforts to lure more and more businesses, which bring more and more people who replace economically marginal people through gentrification and other means.
But like most of this suicidal society, we are too cheap to pay for the consequences of the growth we create. And the anti-tax folks have a point because working people are paying too much and the companies and rich “capitalists” are paying too little. Corporations and CEOs are currently making huge profits even as inflation is changing the living and driving habits of working people.
We live in a suffering hodgepodge of a society that has always tolerated poverty, and we should stop punishing the poor for our selfish decisions.Is it necessary for San Diego to preserve ‘community character’? ” : Not all lands need to be built on and not all communities need to have limitless density. Locally and worldwide, humanity needs to reach a “dynamic steady state” of stable population and use of natural resources balanced by regeneration.
The only living systems that grow without limit are cancers and infections, killing their hosts before dying themselves. Healthy living systems are in balance with their environments and resources.
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