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smauryholmes t1_iztcgy4 wrote

I’ve spent probably two months of my life there now, even in the cheapest areas like the Tenderloin, and have never seen anything I haven’t already seen growing up in my conservative hometown. Obviously SF has some huge problems but so do most of the US, and other areas don’t have the upsides.

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GeekSumsMe t1_izt8r85 wrote

Life in an oligarchy contributes to homelessness and related problems.

We are living in another gilded age. Wealth continues to concentrate at the top. Rules are written to support those with power and money.

Corporations are making record profits, while inflation makes it difficult for many to afford basics. Rx prices are the highest in the world.

College was once the ticket to breaking out of poverty, yet tuition rates now make it unaffordable to the unprivileged.

Some were sold BS like "right to work". Wages the went up dramatically for those at the top while remaining stagnant for everyone else.

This should not really be a D vs R issue, both sides continue to get equally fucked.

Requiring the 1% to pay a tax rate equivalent to those paid by the middle class should not be controversial.

The system is rigged, but we've fixed it before and can fix it again, but only once we realize that all of those in power have zero incentives to actually adress the root causes of our growing inequity.

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Mooks79 t1_izt8d0z wrote

They should be random enough, albeit improperly generated random numbers could be a cause. My money is on them setting up the simulation incorrectly, though. When I say incorrectly, I mean it could be that they haven’t set the simulation up quite as they think they have.

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fuzzylogicIII t1_izt7w5d wrote

Oh sorry I gave benefit of the doubt and figured you weren’t just being obnoxious.

Since you apparently don’t know what an estimate is, here are general explanations for that estimate

The 6,500 figure actually refers to all deaths of migrant workers from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh, regardless of cause… There is clear evidence of thousands of migrant worker deaths in the lead-up to the World Cup,” said Human Rights Watch’s Michael Page

It’s extremely easy to find sources other than the guardian for an insight into this but you sound more interested in swatting people down than correcting or getting good info.

In total ~15,000 non nationals died overall as a general stat, but it’s hard to argue that the working age immigrants mostly died of heart attacks.

Qatar’s official response, if you want to go with that, was 37, then 400-500, then 37. Now you have the full range of estimates, maybe try to provide one of your own next time.

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