SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’
For all the shelters, clinics, and every other initiative to help homeless people &quot;get back on their feet,&quot; we shouldn&#x27;t forget two simple facts:<p>1: San Francisco is a great city and the winters won&#x27;t kill you, so it&#x27;s an attractive destination for everyone, especially the homeless.<p>2: Some people prefer to be homeless. No amount of detox or &quot;good drugs&quot; will ever change them.<p>I have a radical idea: pay homeless people to be homeless somewhere else. Give them a monthly income, distributed at a location outside of the city (and has to be picked up in person so people can&#x27;t game the system), under the condition that they are never to return unless they can show any proof of residence. They can request limited exceptions to visit friends and so on, but once their city visa expires, they leave on their own recognizance. Honor system with one strike to lose their benefit permenantly.<p>Tech folk, instead of sinking tens of millions into fucking glyphy and Yo and other pointless shit that won&#x27;t make money, try investing in this instead. You don&#x27;t need a government program to make this happen, just money. You can use arrest records or other public info to spot violators, and it&#x27;s not like you&#x27;re preventing their freedom of movement, you&#x27;re just giving them an incentive to keep getting free money.<p>Doesn&#x27;t even have to be that much. Life is cheap when you don&#x27;t pay rent.