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Originally Posted by jtown,man
Every bit of this. The question why? Education impacts our kids, which also impacts our crime rates. Crime prevention and crime-solving is obviously a shared goal of a community. Drugs impact many of our families, we should be empathetic to this issue. Homelessness is a horrible thing to see and can be quite annoying for people with homes, let alone the issue of empathy for the homeless.
These issues seem like they would be super important. I have my theories on why they aren't taken seriously, but nothing concrete.
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I think that since society is made up of individuals, and at the individual level, many people don't perceive these issues as affecting them directly. Therefore, we get what we pay for -- it's as simple as that.
We don't get our "best and brightest" to work as teachers, cops, counselors, social workers of any type, etc. because the money is shit.
If we actually valued the issues I listed (among others), we would pay for it. We don't. Again, it is just that simple.
Just think if our top grads from our top schools wanted to work as detectives rather than work in the finance or tech industries... "unsolved crime" would be a term never used again.