[peterthehacker]

> Whenever this topic comes up the conversation always centers around money or housing or other brute physical facts

That’s not what the article is about. It’s about bad governing and policing as the primary cause of SF’s homelessness problem.

> He[Michael Shellenberger] blames San Francisco’s woes on a culture of permissive lawlessness and a mistaken view of what constitutes moral policymaking. For example, many on the left believe the lax prosecution of laws is compassionate.

The article also mentioned that this is a problem that’s specific to SF and homelessness in the rest of the country is not as bad.

While I’m as much of a fan of philosophical rants about the decline of human civilization as the next guy, that’s not what the article is about. Also, some comments are unrealistically pessimistic

> The family is the center of a human’s life, and we’ve destroyed it… We look away from our families and attach ourselves to a reactionary “culture” that’s completely…

I see where you’re coming from, but many people’s lives are not like this. The world might be heading this way with all the challenges we’ve faced transitioning society online, but the internet is still very young. We can learn from our mistakes and build healthier social systems.