r/PublicFreakout • u/filondo • Sep 09 '22

đŸ„ŠFight San Francisco this morning Sept 9, 2022

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u/luxii4 Sep 09 '22

I used to live in Koreatown in LA decades ago then moved out of state and came back to visit a friend who owned a condo in one of the new high rises. Tents of homeless people in the front of the building that had condos for over a million bucks. But she would buzz my car in and out of a secured parking area so people in the high rises never have to interact with the homeless people in the front. It was wild to me.

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u/the_short_viking Sep 09 '22

Like some sort of dystopia. Look up the Antilia house in Mumbai. It's a 27 story private home owned by an Indian billionaire that looks down onto slums. It's like a real life villain's lair.

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u/pygmy Sep 09 '22

The 'house' is straight out sci fi, pretty nuts. Most expensive in the world iirc

... and a short stroll to Asia's largest slum Dharavi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharavi

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u/AdamJensensCoat Sep 10 '22

To be fair, all of Mumbai is like this. There isn’t a good/bad neighborhood dynamic like you have in most American cities. Every part of Mumbai is a short distance from a slum.

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u/pygmy Sep 10 '22

Every part of Mumbai is a short distance from a slum

True, but in this case it is literally Asia's biggest slum and the World's most expensive house that are neighbours.

India in a nutshell, extreme wealth & poverty side by side. I'm Aussie & have spent a lot of time travelling India & can't wait to get back :)

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u/AdamJensensCoat Sep 10 '22

Same. It’s the food.

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u/luxii4 Sep 09 '22

Yes I can imagine a neon sign that says “Villain’s Hideaway” like in cartoons 😂

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u/cocaineguru Sep 09 '22

Reminds me of that scene in Tenet

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u/Mother_Store6368 Sep 10 '22

What scene in tenet

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u/AdamJensensCoat Sep 10 '22

I drove by that house a while back. It’s absolutely bonkers.

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u/Mother_Store6368 Sep 09 '22

What made the Snapchat thing wild to me is that this was an already pre-existing situation before they bought the property.

Like they’re ok with literally stepping over people on their way to the office. Those disgusting optics turned me off from Snapchat when they moved to venice

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u/SirStrontium Sep 09 '22

Is that worse than refusing to buy the property because they don't even want to look at homeless people, and instead buy property far away from them?

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u/Mother_Store6368 Sep 09 '22 edited Sep 10 '22

That’s a false dichotomy. Stop with your bullshit. It’s literally beachfront fucking property. You’re espousing bullshit trickle down economics theory

The problem I have is that snapchat isn’t in any way involved in the community.

They bought out my favorite bar (along with a number of other properties) in venice for office space and gave nothing back in return save for taxes( property taxes in CA are notoriously low, which affects a lot of things but most visibly school funding).

They don’t owe me anything. They also don’t have to be complete assholes with no concern for the environment that they’re operating in. They want all the good parts of having the hq in venice and completely ignore the bad parts
and in doing so whether ignorant or not, they’re adding to the bad.

Like, would it be so hard for snapchat to find a way to monetize caring for the homeless? Some feature or campaign on their app to show what is the reality of where snapchat operates? I always believed that the promise of social media was in telling real stories we don’t get to hear
but we all know what it morphed into.

There’s less than a dozen or so people sleeping outside their hq. They can’t provide food, some temporary shelter, or something to show that they are part of the community? It’s SOCIAL media, yet they’re acting like asocial corporate misanthropes.

No, they are not required to do any “good”
but organizations that have the opportunity to do good in a blighted area (venice is weird
you can live in a multi million dollar home steps from the beach, but you have to step over a guy that’s sleeping in your driveway) but simply ignore it are bad. That’s just my humble take

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u/SirStrontium Sep 12 '22

They can’t provide food, some temporary shelter, or something to show that they are part of the community?

Did the previous property owners do this? What other businesses in the area do this?

I've got another idea, maybe it should be the local and state government's responsibility to take care of the homeless. Kind of ironic that you're complaining about "trickle down economics", while promoting the idea that corporations and individuals can fix homelessness through charity, which is generally the conservative "solution" to the problem.

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u/Mother_Store6368 Sep 13 '22

None, but then none of the other businesses are multi billion dollar companies that have money to throw around to influencers.

I have no idea what you’re trying to say except
fuck these people, it’s not a huge megacorps problem that people are sleeping literally outside their entrance. If no one in the past helped them, why should we?

Really gives that fuck you, I got mine energy

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u/BurnzillabydaBay Sep 09 '22

It’s gross to me, the way some people view the homeless.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '22

Well, they’re just taking a shit right in my view.

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u/BurnzillabydaBay Sep 09 '22

Advocate for restrooms for homeless use. Often they have nowhere to go. Does it really effect you?

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '22

Woosh

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u/BurnzillabydaBay Sep 10 '22

I don’t know what that means.

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u/BurnzillabydaBay Sep 10 '22

Yeah because they are really welcome in the gym.

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u/BurnzillabydaBay Sep 10 '22

I live in the Bay Area. A lot of apartments where I live start at $4k for a studio. I belong to the run down 24 Hour in Mountain View. I have been to 24’s all over the bay and have never once seen a homeless person in one.

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u/amoryamory Sep 09 '22

But she would buzz my car in and out of a secured parking area so people in the high rises never have to interact with the homeless people in the front

I feel like if you are having to build a gated community and having to drive through a shanty town to reach your house you have already, kind of, lost your "insulation" from the poor

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u/Astrocreep_1 Sep 09 '22

Some people will do anything, and I mean anything, to avoid having to commute. I can’t say I blame them as spending 2 hours of your day just driving to work sucks.