41 sats \ 4 replies \ @Ge 22 Feb \ on: The Homelessness Crisis mostly_harmless
In all texts dating back to biblical and babylonian times there has always been the poor I don't think it's a problem that will ever be fixed there will always be those who just want handouts...sure there are some bad luck scenarios which sucks but for the majority it just is what it is...
I agree there is that element, plenty of people who don't want to work. It's something in society that we are often forbidden to point out (especially in left leaning circles) yet it exists, whether we want to admit it or not. I don't think homelessness is cut and dry, there are many factors. There are some people who actually don't want help. They don't want to be taken "back into the system" as it were.
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Along the lines your discussing, homelessness is not inherently something that needs to be solved. I've known completely functional homeless people, who had regular jobs, and just preferred to spend their money on hobbies.
It is important to disentangle homeless by choice and homeless by circumstance.
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I totally agree with that, but the size of that population has noticeably changed.
A mantra of empirical work is "Changes explain changes.": for example, we wouldn't attribute an increase in plane crashes to gravity, even though gravity is the cause of every plane crash.
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Can take a horse to water but can't make them drink it...I believe all this can be traced back to keynesian economics.... John Keynes look at the way he went out a crazy insane lonely depressed man...look at the spike in all these symptoms in the world today...we are running the system this man created so naturally symptoms of this system trickle down into the population
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