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minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·4 days agoWe as a collective just hate the poor. OP is right in that it’s hypocritical, but people don’t care and never will. (Unless you’re Finnish, where homelessness has been solved.)
minus-squareonslaught545@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·4 days agoHomelessness can’t ever be truly solved without forcibly institutionalizing a portion of the population. But solving it for economic hardship is totally doable.
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down3·4 days ago Homelessness can’t ever be truly solved Absolutely it can, and has been. That some people choose a nomadic lifestyle doesn’t change that.
minus-squareonslaught545@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agoThe second half of my sentence that you left out is the important part. Severely mentally ill people aren’t “choosing to live a nomadic lifestyle”.
We as a collective just hate the poor.
OP is right in that it’s hypocritical, but people don’t care and never will. (Unless you’re Finnish, where homelessness has been solved.)
Homelessness can’t ever be truly solved without forcibly institutionalizing a portion of the population.
But solving it for economic hardship is totally doable.
Absolutely it can, and has been.
That some people choose a nomadic lifestyle doesn’t change that.
The second half of my sentence that you left out is the important part. Severely mentally ill people aren’t “choosing to live a nomadic lifestyle”.