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حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.online to Memes@lemmy.ml · 4日前

Should we house the homeless?

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Should we house the homeless?

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حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.online to Memes@lemmy.ml · 4日前
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  • That Weird Vegan she/her@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Homeless people should NOT exist in a world with trillionaires. Fuck the rich so hard.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Here’s a reminder that there are nearly 14,000,000 vacant houses in America, and less than 650,000 homeless people. The math comes out to ~22 vacant houses for every single homeless person. I’ll give you one guess which income bracket owns the vast majority of those vacant houses…

      • That Weird Vegan she/her@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I’ll give you one guess which income bracket owns the vast majority of those vacant houses…

        it’s poor people, right? right?

        • papalonian@lemmy.world
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          Well duh, they’re on the street because they’re experiencing decision paralysis on what house to live in that day.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      Phrase that differently or the wealthy will get the wrong idea.

      • That Weird Vegan she/her@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        nah, I’m not a minor

        • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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          That wasn’t what I…

          You know what, that works too.

        • theolodis@feddit.org
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          I think this might have been about the “should not exist” party which could also mean “kill them all”, in the billionaire’s mind.

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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      Alright, so let’s kill 'em!

      (Ambiguity is on purpose.)

      • BanMe@lemmy.world
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        They know goddamn well a big contingent is willing to if they had the opportunity, so they’ve gone to great lengths to avoid such possibilities.

        This should intrigue people who like a challenge idk

    • 1984@lemmy.today
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      Totally agree. What the fuck is a society that just cares about money and not people. Its not worth surviving.

      • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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        The sad thing is that it has been like this for so damn long it isn’t funny. And the people who like it this way will never go away.

  • Broadfern@lemmy.world
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    The cruelty is part of the fun! Plus prison = free slave labor!

    /s

    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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      Providing housing and paying them a shit wage is slave labor too but you get the benefit of them paying their money back into the company store so it’s cheaper.

  • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works
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    It’s “expensive” in the “right” way. The costs are paid by taxes, which are largely supplied by the 99%. The revenue, by contrast, is privatized, going to corporations owned by the 1%.

    So it’s only “expensive” for the masses, which lawmakers don’t care about.

    • Flickerby@lemmy.zip
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      Not to mention the slave labor they gain out of it.

      • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works
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        I was lumping that into “revenue”

      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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        👆 👆 These two guys/girls/dudes/men/women get it.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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      Just another way to extract surplus created by the 99%.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    Obviously, the solution is US slavery

    US prison workers produce $11bn worth of goods and services a year for pittance

    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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      And it only costs $80bn to do so!

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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        One of the most obvious illustrations how capitalism socialise costs and privatises profits.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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    It’s an investment by the megacorps (with gov monies) into keeping the plebs in check, to not get any ideas around equity, social reform, tax increases, megacorp regulation (consumer prices/margins cap), higher wages, etc.

    It’s super effective.

    The same infrastructure can also be recycled in event of a full-on fascist gov.

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      Not only that. The housing is then maintained by taxpayers, who are not the rich strata. So it’s another way to funnel money from the poor/middle class to the corporation owned by the rich.

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    It’s not that expensive if you use them as slave labor and ignore their human rights… Well, still expensive for the tax payers, but who cares for those peasants? /s

    • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      This isn’t talked about enough. Also plays in to why the job market is shit, people are pissed about competing with immigrants making $12/ hr but not the literal slave labor thays like $2/ hr.

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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      How about organs? I’m about done with this liver and I could use a bigger penis.

  • RedSnt 👓♂️🧩 🧠 🖥️@feddit.dk
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    How about house them in a way that take away their voting rights and use them as cheap labor? Member how prisoners were used to fight the Palisades fires in January?

    • theparadox@lemmy.world
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      How about house them in a way that take away their voting rights and use them as cheap labor? Member how prisoners were used to fight the Palisades fires in January?

      Don’t forget the expensive housing is provided by a for-profit prison system. It’s expensive for taxpayers, but someone else is getting rich.

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      deleted by creator

  • Ava@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Well, there WAS that thing a couple of months ago where Kilmeade said the quiet part out loud, suggesting we should execute them.

  • Soot [any]@hexbear.net
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    This is how people start believing the free market makes it moral for poor people to just die instead

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    If these people were at all reasonable or giving a shit about anybody else, they wouldn’t be ayncaps.

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    Meanwhile in AES states like the DPRK:

    Homeless? Never heard of her

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    We? How about “we” remove the rich, so that homelessness is only a frie and true choice if you want to be traveling?

    The only people who’d like there to be homeless people are the rich and powerful.

  • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    no, we should arm the homeless

    • blindbunny@lemmy.ml
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      How else do we keep cops from fucking with them?

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    My area mentioned?

    https://abc7.com/post/orange-county-supervisors-approve-anti-camping-ordinance-allowing-arrest-homeless/18117855/

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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    Truth. The cheapest option is housing and mental health care.

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      In particular if you look at the long term (even just a couple of years): many homeless just need a little help to start climbing the ladder again. So housing and mental care would allow them to quickly become productive members of society. Prisons just lock them into a circle of poverty.

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