San Franciso mayor proposes making section of Front St. "entertainment zone" 

Best way to do that is to give people jobs that pay enough to live comfortably without having to resort to crime to do it. You can't punish people into being nice. Doesn't work on the individual or societal level. The problem is that hard work stopped being rewarded here. Nobody want to look at or talk about the elephant in the middle of the room, but that's what it is. You can't just put the entire middle class out of their own homes, and jobs, leave them and the poor with basically no work, or opportunity to get back on their feet and then expect there to not be an explosion of crime. And you can't just party the problem away. I mean I get it, get the rich folks to come out and spend a little money on entertainment to get it to trickle down into the empty pockets, but that doesn't work and Reagan proved it. Instead, force higher wages for the lower incomes, decrease wage disparity, and you can do that by mandating that the no employee of any company, or corporation may earn or receive (except in cases of medical treatments) more than 20 times the amount of another in annual payments. So, the CEO of a company cannot make more than 20x what the lowest paid employee is. Along with that, you more strictly define and regulate what kinds of work can and cannot be outsourced so that companies have a more difficult time skirting employee benefits by hiring private contractors. Is that communism? No, it's capitalism that does't just eat up and spit out the lower wage employees of companies. Is it wage redistribution? Not exactly. Maybe sorta, but it addresses that companies who do well, require effort from all involved and if the company does well, all of its employees do well. ALL of them. As for shareholders, make capital gains taxable, and remove immunity. And STOP PUNISHING PEOPLE FOR BEING POOR! Food for thought.

In reality crime is WAY down over the last 20 years. It's STILL much better than it was in the 90s. It's just that everyone has a camera and a newspaper with them now (and they can post to this newspaper at all times). SF Bay area isnt really known for physical crime, it's all property crime or drugs.

They can't even keep the Walgreens on that corner safe from the rampant shoplifting and they're expecting this half-baked proposal to succeed? Good luck.

@@thekenthouse6428 100% agree 👍

No, thanks* You need the comma there or you are saying something else.

@@Midori_Hoshi No thanks is exactly what I mean.

@@AKAAAK Well, that doesn't make any sense. I won't waste any more time trying to communicate with you.

Mid life crisis

@TOm-hr2mb man I guess?

Have you been to Las Vegas, New Orleans, LA, NYC, Nashville, Denver, Seattle, Boston, Miami? YOU NEED a bit of dangerous and crazy if you want to build a culture in a large Metro .... this is a GREAT idea!! They should lean into their hippie/rocknroll/counter-culture past

​@@RandomRabbit007one time my wife and I were sitting by an open window at a restaurant in San Francisco. As I was watching people strolling along the sidewalk, a women suddenly dropped her trousers, squatted, and took a dump, then jumped up and kept walking like nothing. That's what San Francisco has to celebrate.

@@djenkins555 Yes that is definitely an issue but not one that cant be fixed by some new laws and police enforcing the laws and the District Attorneys prosecuting. The farther we get from the pandemic the closer to reality/stable we also get. Be patient.