Reminder that the both the Mormon & Catholic “Churches” could feed, house & clothe every single homeless person in the USA indefinitely & it would only cost them a fraction of their net worth.
They had rather sit on their wealth like the Dragon though, regardless of the punishments for that described in their “Bible”.
That’s how you know they don’t really believe in their own bullshit.
Hey I’m all about shoving this down religious zealots throats but can you site some proof so I can do just that lol 😜
A simple Google search.
Literally 3 words.
Reminder that the secular institution with the Democrats leading it can also fix homelessness with even less of a fraction of their net worth.
Atheism to the rescue again.
There have been many spans of time when Democrats had enough control of government to push through what they profress. They don’t use those opportunities.
Not arguing that the two parties are the same. They are better than the Republicans by far, but the Democrats are still not our friends. They either need to be destroyed or changed.
Since Eugene McCarthy, to the Rainbow Coalition, and then the campaigns of Kuccinch and then Bernie working inside has not worked. Of course, neither has working outside.
It’s not about faith. It’s about corporations. Religious, commercial or government, none of them are working for us.
His comment was about faith though.
I keep having to read the dumb narrative that le atheism would fix everything here on Lemmy and everything is the fault of religion but the atheist institutions are doing just as little if not less than the religious ones.
Atheist institutions? You’re trying to compare FAANG to open source. False equivalency. U dumb.
You’re telling me that the satanic temple is not doing as much as religious institutions?
Pretty sure it’s not that simple. They have projects all over the planet, and administrators that need their cut. Also need church renovations so that people feel their church is fancier than their own homes.
proof again that the government could severely curtail homelessness if they wanted to-- they just don’t.
Something something bootstraps.
That’s it I’m cutting any and all bootstraps I see. Menacingly approaches old riding boots
The disparity in wealth should grow instead of shrink.
As long as most people believe this, then that’s what’s going to happen.
Wealth disparity is not relevant to this discussion. It doesn’t say anything about where the bottom tier is.
If we had full UBI, free homes, free food, free healthcare, etc and some small portion of the country were quadrillionaires, we’d have massive wealth disparity and no loss of quality of life.
Wealth is not zero-sum, and the high and low do not necessarily have anything to do with one another.
Another awful take courtesy of you.
It’s not a take. This is just correct information that you don’t like. There is 0 opinion in the above.
You would be delusional enough to believe that.
It’s okay, I’m going to put you on my ignore list now. You’re not worth arguing with because every post you make is asinine.
Goodbye.
Have a good one!
The rich people who go on TV and say “people don’t want to work for me anymore, that’s why we need to cut benefits” certainly see wealth as zero-sum. They know if we had all those things you listed their business would stop working.
Or they’re lying for their own gain
Also this is a question of incentives, not wealth. They believe people who get benefits are incentivized not to work. This has been proven soundly false in recent tests of UBI.
What are they seeking to gain if not wealth?
Elected office.
We can invent billions of dollars to give away during the pandemic, and billions more to give Israel to continue its genocide against Palestinians, but solving student debt or homelessness or universal health care? We don’t have enough money for that!
Because interest payments make profit, and reducing people’s ability to not live paycheck to paycheck increases the workers dependency on the system.
Is Hamas/IDF genocide against each other some kind of meme that must be mentioned in every comment section now or is this just propaganda?
Hamas isn’t in the West Bank. And yet Israel is demolishing houses right now so that settlers can move in. Only one side is perpetrating a genocide.
Sweet, what’s that have to do about US homelessness?
Nothing. It has everything to do with your comment. This isn’t a “both sides” moment. It may have been in the past but Israel is commuting war crimes at a breathtaking pace now.
Proof that the military needs more money, you say? That’s correct!! 😅
How else are they going to keep all those homeless people in check
Or accurately place a missle within 5 meters of Amhed and his little sister as they walk home from school.
What’s the point of thinking of our government as “the government”? Or changing “We could solve this.” to “They could solve this.”?
Because the government has on multiple occasions during my lifetime refused to consider measures with over 90% popular support.
Because they do not serve us as it is written in the Constitution. They serve the wealthy, they bend and scrape and lick their boots, never hold them accountable to the law, and never. Ever. Act against their best interest in any scenario. And the wealthy benefit from the social safety net having a big hole above a pit trap their workers are afraid to fall into.
Our leaders serve the people making noise at the bargaining table. We the people have the most power. We just leave after the first victory. We don’t become educated voters and choose to instead focus on exciting narratives. Elite interests try to affect change and so focus on reality. We the people seem to be after catharsis and so focus on symbolic victories.
But what can you expect from people who constantly tell themselves they have no power? No agency? They don’t conceptualize themselves as being able to affect change and it colors everything they do.
You’re judging the majority of the population without questioning why we feel powerless. The vast majority of news, media, and education we encounter support our oppression.
Just because you’ve been lucky enough to hear the truth and been in the right place emotionally to hear it doesn’t mean you should write everyone who is ignorant as morally inferior.
I’m not judging, I’m curious about why people say this stuff. The way we talk is intimately tied with results. Changing rhetoric is a big step in getting girls to conceptualize themselves as capable of “boy” things. “Chess is for boys.” isn’t just a phrase, it’s like a spell that alters reality. If people can understand how words have power when it comes to women’s opportunites, or minorities taking interest in voting, then they’ll eventually understand that it affects our agency too.
Oy. Arguing with nihilists is about as useful as pissing into a black hole. You’ll just get your dick turned into spaghetti for the effort, so why bother?
All I care about is that people can see what kind of mentality pairs with rhetoric like, “They control us!” It’s not a productive, insightful perspective that speaks helplessness into themselves and others.
except nobody said that
proof again that the
governmentpeople could severely curtail homelessness if they wanted to-- they just don’t.That’s why we formed a government, to handle shit like this. A government of the people by the people for the people. it’s their fucking job.
The government is just doing what its people want.
If the people want something different, then they should do something different.
Haven’t you heard how good the economy is doing?
you dropped this: /s
44% of single family homes were purchased by private equity in 2023. Some analysts expect institutional investors to control 40% of the SFH rental market by 2030.
And when are the American people going to demand an end to this shit? They represented less than 3% of sfh ownership in 2012. How long until everyone must rent? How long until people are forced to sell due to taxes driving them out of ownership due to inflated pricing from these ghouls?
While I’m not 100% about it, Prop 13 in California has some good effects.
People shouldn’t be tax hiked out of their living quarters. I think most states should have something similar and limit it to only the property you reside in so that property taxes are predictable instead of the incalculable beast they are today in most areas.
Let us not forget apartments, which are invariably occupied by less wealthy folk on average, who definitely can’t afford the cost.
It’s okay guys. The government is (checks notes) giving money to your land lords with no strings attached.
I’ll be at the bar if anyone wants to join me.
Wait people were getting aid? I thought we all got a couple thousand dollars and thoughts and prayers… That shit dried up in one month.
But unemployment is at the lowest ever! We added 200.000 jobs. There was only a soft recession. Line goes up, and just in time for something important. What a coincidence. The economy is so great and we’re back in the bull market!
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See, the real problem is that people don’t know how good they have it.
Sarcasm or not? Hard to tell
In my case, sarcasm, but unfortunately too many articles are stating this without any sarcasm.
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Something needs to be done. Housing is a nightmare.
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I don’t think that’s what is happening at all. We don’t need to imagine some vast and ridiculously improbable media conspiracy to explain this seeming disconnect. What I imagine is really happening is that the tools that economists and by extension the media use to gauge the health of the economy are no longer (if they ever were) calibrated to accurately reflect the lived experience of many/most Americans.
This is by far the simplest explanation.
The idea that this is somehow a conspiracy is simply an example of poor media literacy. It doesn’t work like that at all.
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It’s cute that you appear to imagine that anyone gets rich through journalism. No one goes into journalism because they want to get rich.
Journalism is probably the lowest paid “profession” there is because it’s highly competitive and in recent decades the bottom has entirely fallen out of local news organizations due to the Internet having destroyed their revenue streams.
Overwhelmingly people go into journalism because they want to make a difference, not because they want to get rich. If you want to get rich you go into finance or a STEM field or go to law school.
This idea of yours, that journalists use their own economic conditions when reporting on the economy is also objectively absurd.
To the contrary, they report what the economists and financial market experts are saying. Again, this “gaslighting” notion of yours makes no sense inasmuch as it implies something very like a conspiracy or a collective understanding that the truth is to be misrepresented.
This makes no sense in the reality that is competitive reporting in which one is rewarded for reporting “scoops” in terms of breaking news. Again, it just shows how illiterate you and many others are when it comes to understanding what actually happens in newsrooms.
While it makes sense to imagine that traditional economic indicators aren’t necessarily indicative of the lived experience of average citizens, it makes zero sense to imagine that the highly competitive news media is somehow in collusion to present an inaccurate picture of the economy.
That’s just plain stupid.
Source; I have a degree in journalism together with decades in the news business. It’s actually pretty difficult for me to emphasize how wrong-headed you are on this.
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But Biden fixed the economy it’s better than everrr!
The economy has little impact on price gouging and you better believe rent is being gouged to fuck.
They all collude too, example: https://m.slashdot.org/story/406219
Your post has “Biden did that” in relation to gas prices energy
Nah it’s a counter to statements like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/us/politics/biden-speech-economy-chicago.html
It’s probably more a tongue in cheek response to the “everything is fine” attitude they seem to have
He didn’t do that, and he hasn’t corrected or even addressed it until campaign year.
Homelessness is a very complex issue encompassing things like mental health and climate change. The president has no direct control over rent prices, they may be able to influence them to a degree, but that’s all. This is an integral part of late-stage capitalism. People in need are being left behind because America is filled with greed. One of the many things to help alleviate this would be the construction of subsidized dense housing in areas with high levels of amenities.
Number go up!
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Few seem to care…including those who will one day be there themselves.
Few seem to care…including those who will one day be there themselves.
What are those of us who care supposed to be doing?
Amidst deciding which bills get paid each paycheck, trying to find nutritional variety out of food banks (canned fish intake should ideally be less than 10 cans a month per person, for example, and even rinsing canned vegetables/beans isn’t doing wonders for sodium intake compared to fresh), trying to decide which medical and dental issues we can afford to address and which just get to be endured, and watching debt go to collections because food, insurance, automobile fuel, home energy, rent, and everything related to cars has gone up, what are we supposed to be doing?
In what way can we unite as a people and fix this?
I could not comment as I do not know you, but many people choose nice things like bigger cars, new phone, alcohol and such over quality food. Some however are in a place that they are trapped and have no choice and for those people I have no advice other than to really make some noise and vote accordingly if you are in a country you can.
Worker and renters unions are a good place to start. Talk to your neighbors and coworkers. Join the IWW if you’d like some help
Rents soar as government continues heavy suppression of new housing construction.
I keep seeing this argument. I see a metric funckton of new construction and they are ALL 400k+ which is a lot for our smaller/mid city. Existing inventory is averaging the same.
Yes some construction happens. It’s still profitable in some cases, especially when the target market is the richest segments of society.
But there could be so much more. They could build two houses on each of those plots of land, and maybe each house is only $250k but you’ve managed to get $500k of real estate out of the same plot of land which (as any good capitalist will tell you) is better than $400k of real estate.
But you can’t do that. Density restrictions. Zoning laws that are way too narrowly defined, ie bloated, and have long since surpassed the “Don’t boil horse carcasses next to a daycare” sort of scenario by which zoning laws are explained in our history books.
Instead of just protecting public health zoning’s now also protecting people’s views, protecting people’s lawns, protecting people’s resale value on their homes.
Like, oh your view of Mt Shasta got blocked by an apartment building? Gee that sucks but it also doesn’t suck that five hundred new apartments are on the market now, weakening the monopoly some local cartel has on pricing and slowing the rise of rent prices.
We have a sort of overton window in terms of how much construction is “a little” and how much is “a fuckton”. Living our lives in this kind of supply crackdown has calibrated our sense of how much construction is a fuckton.
Just imagine that construction you’re seeing … but twice as tall. Perfectly conceivable, even financially favorable to the people who would make it happen, but literally not allowed.
This is an excellent and erudite comment. I’m curious what industry you work in. And did you make up “Don’t boil horse carcasses next to a daycare”? Because I’m fucking keeping it, funniest shit I’ve read all day. Keep it up mate
They just to apply themselves, get out there and hustle, bring value, and make others rich! /s
They can start by making me rich. I offer myself as tribute.
Problems also in the UK
Both countries run by right wing partis. Coincidence?
okay, but the GDP…
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Lol presonal accountability? Over a quarter are children. And the rest, a majority have mental and physical disabilities. Studies show around 40% to 60% have jobs. Very few are homeless by choice.
ah I should I put /s or something, it was a lyric from Capital G, NIN song.
