Basically, wealth inequality.
It should be very difficult to be very poor or very wealthy.
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The Nordic countries.
There's a reason that Toronto is labelled one of the top safest cities in the world as well.
Toronto is becoming unaffordable for the working class. High cost of living is what is breaking the US too. I don't really know why people want to seek asylum in the west. I guess if you're okay sharing the floor of a room with a few other people on sleeping pads then the rest of the world must be an event worse shithole. You have to work two hours just to afford lunch.
My daughter has a boyfriend who lives on the outskirts of London. He was shocked at the cost of things in fucking Cincinnati. Ohio is in the cheaper half of US states.
For people seeking asylum, the choices are usually "kinda shitty conditions in a nice city" vs "abject poverty and life threatening conditions back home". It's not really a question which one is better. Toronto has issues, but the tap water won't give you cholera, nobody is going to stab you for your bag of rice, and that room you are sharing is not going to be bombed.
There's a lot of work to be done to make it a city that's livable for everyone, but please don't fall for bullshit narratives.
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There's truth in that to a degree. But so long as mass media can stir the pot and create public anxiety where none existed before, even a strong egalitarian economic model is insufficient to deter interpersonal violence.
Americans bombarded by "Shoplifter Alert!" and "Murder Spree!" and "Rape Gangs Terrorizing Your Neighborhood!" news coverage are going to be deeply suspicious of anyone they don't recognize (and more than a few they do recognize). People will lash out in fits of paranoia and induced terror, then claim self-defense against their victims. And if we've instilled a legitimacy to this fear in the general public, they'll get away with it.
Exactly. Most people get into crime because their backs are to the wall. They're stuck in debt due to medical treatments they had to get, they're struggling to pay obscene rent prices and risk being kicked out their home - there's plenty of reasons, and much of it is down to poverty.
If you give people legitimate, easily accessible support nets that are enough to actually survive on, then you'll get less crime. It's rather simple.
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"Those who make peaceful reform impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
...but think of the billionaires, then they couldn't buy politicians, control the media, and buy bigger yachts.
No thanks, they should pay more taxes for all the good they get out of society and it’s structure
Basically what the Venus Project wants to do, except no artificial currency
No one in the UK started a drug empire to pay for chemo.
You wanna know what else makes billionaires billions of dollars? A strong middle class...the one with a lot of disposable income to, you guessed it, spend on goods and services!
Make enough affordable reliable cars then people with the disposable income will buy a new one every 5ish years and then the secondary used car market has good reliable cars to sell
Every dollar the "middle class" has in disposable income is a dollar the billionaires didn't hold onto.
But I don't want money in 5 years, I want it now!
— A 300 lbs toddler with an inherited hedge fund.
Man can be free only when and if he’s able to rise above his insecurities