[no-dr-onboard]

> No one wants to work in these neighborhoods because they are invariably awful

Yeah, no kidding. But why are they awful to begin with? I'd hazard that it's because families have been asleep at the wheel in teaching their children to be good citizens. The change for something like this comes bottom-up, not top-down.

You could try to boil it down to economics, but that's misguided. The markets are a terrible tutor of morality and accountability.

Fix the families, fix the society. Hold parents accountable. Teach morality in the schools. It's not slavery to do that. You're not harming anyone by teaching children to have a modicum of respect for their communities, elders, authority figures or eachother.

[lazyasciiart]

It's just crazy to see people who still have this kind of absolute flat earth perception of life. Right up there with "if we build more roads then traffic will get better".

[runeofdoom]

You're joking right?

Look at the "morality" of America's wealthiest and most influental citizens, and how rarely they are ever held accountable for anything.

Our nation has been rotting from its head for decades, and telling the plebes to be better citizens is pissing into a firestorm and thinking you'll accomplish something.