http://blogometer.com/post/how-you-can-perpetuate-poverty-for-generations-and-make-big/ Alan Gutierrez blogs on software, social networks, and himself. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:17:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blogometer.com/post/how-you-can-perpetuate-poverty-for-generations-and-make-big/#comment-12338 Michael Kane Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:08:42 +0000 http://blogometer.com/2007/04/19/how-you-can-perpetuate-poverty-for-generations-and-make-big/#comment-12338 Thanks Alan. Your blog and those of others could do a great service by teasing out some more of these connections. If one focuses only on instant solutions to crime, poverty, racism: more guns, more cops, more stops, more jails, more prosecutors, etc. you never get to root causes. And you create the consequences you did not intend. Peter Senge in the Fifth Discipline calls this " shifting the burden.". One might explore not just housing, but the dysfunctions inherent in a tourist economy where hotels do not allow living wages, thus attracting functional illiterates which the RSD seems willing to supply in great numbers, either to the tourist industry or to the jails, or sometimes to both. Under the guise of "saving public education" rich and yes even not so rich whites and blacks collude in a conspiracy to create islands of safety while emotionally numbing themselves to the plight of vast numbers of poor children. San Francisco hotel rates are comparable to New Orleans; yet workers-unionized workers---can make a living there. So it goes. Mike Thanks Alan. Your blog and those of others could do a great service by teasing out some more of these connections. If one focuses only on instant solutions to crime, poverty, racism: more guns, more cops, more stops, more jails, more prosecutors, etc. you never get to root causes. And you create the consequences you did not intend. Peter Senge in the Fifth Discipline calls this ” shifting the burden.”. One might explore not just housing, but the dysfunctions inherent in a tourist economy where hotels do not allow living wages, thus attracting functional illiterates which the RSD seems willing to supply in great numbers, either to the tourist industry or to the jails, or sometimes to both. Under the guise of “saving public education” rich and yes even not so rich whites and blacks collude in a conspiracy to create islands of safety while emotionally numbing themselves to the plight of vast numbers of poor children. San Francisco hotel rates are comparable to New Orleans; yet workers-unionized workers—can make a living there. So it goes. Mike

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