ideasfromtheedge

Wireheading City - a forever resort for the homeless?

k00b

> We should also be realistic. The 47-year-old meth addict living on the streets is probably not somehow going to turn his life around and create the next Uber. He can either do meth on your front porch, or he can do meth somewhere else. Likewise, prison — way more destructive to human dignity than Wireheading City — is the only way to easily get free food and shelter in the US, and many people misbehave inside because they don’t want to be there. 

This is really the long and short of it. SF closed down a clean use space after the pandemic and the end result is now the people doing drugs are doing it less safely, and they're doing it out in the open and shitting on sidewalks. If you don't do some form of harm reduction or other aid, they just do the shit in the streets. If you throw them in jail, they're a massive sink on the system.

I'm not sure a burning man city is the answer, but things have gotten pretty bad, and incarceration and shuffling people around hasn't done shit. Time to get creative.