I specifically tried to omit the homeless from my analysis. Americans have largely excluded homeless people from being able to participate meaningfully in the e

I specifically tried to omit the homeless from my analysis. Americans have largely excluded homeless people from being able to participate meaningfully in the economy, for various reasons. I am in Colombia right now, and homeless people here play critical roles in maintaining city infrastructure. I saw a homeless guy once fixing water piping out in the street. It felt like the street was his home, he had a pride obligation to making sure his home was in good repair. I also see them doing things like trash sorting, things nobody else wants to do at reasonable rates. I think Americans, if they could moderate their sense of social justice, could find win-win solutions with the really hard-up that makes everybody's lives better. But they don't, so industries such as sanitation become hotbeds of corruption instead. But I grew up lower class, white privilege made my life much more palatable than it otherwise would have been. But I am very familiar with the psychological burdens of the working poor. Life is hard, but they are not stupid people. There's a tendency in America to equate lower-class with unintelligent. Just because you don't have an education doesn't make you stupid. Hard life makes you hard, eventually poor people become unable to climb the social ladder. I've met people who willingly chose less affluent environs over more affluent ones because the poorer ones were places they knew. They felt richer because of their knowledge than because of their opportunity.