3 ms·

Aren't you hijacking the topic of homelessness here then? When people say homeless they don't mean someone who is homeless out of choice and can get out of it w

Aren't you hijacking the topic of homelessness here then? When people say homeless they don't mean someone who is homeless out of choice and can get out of it whenever they want to?

lowglow 10y ago
I'm just relaying my experiences and what I've seen.
- e12e 10y ago
  I think your comment was informative. It kind of reminds me of "There, but for Fortune", by Phil Ochs: Show me an alley, show me a train Show me a hobo who sleeps out in the rain And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why And there but for fortune, may go you or I Especially in countries with (dare I say) primitive social security, going intentionally homeless could quickly become a permanent thing. A broken down car and a medical emergency, a family tragedy -- and coming back might suddenly become an insurmountable obstacle. Difficult to get a job without a place to stay, difficult to get a place to stay without money, difficult to get money without a job...
- smilingtom 10y ago
  You're full of shit, man. Just another conceited young person who thinks they are getting back at all the HATERS by daring to go homeless to work on your revolutionary idea. You completely appropriated the topic of homelessness to give more credibility to your project. And then you have the AUDACITY to pretend to be amazed at the community response when you wrote a huge blog post basically crying about choosing to be homeless and wishing people would give you free shit? People like you are what is wrong with tech right now. I hope you fail.
mindslight 10y ago
Probably the best thing we can do for homelessness is to not see it as a problem of "others", but as a continuum with a self-sustaining end that anyone could end up at.
wutbrodo 10y ago
Wasn't his original comment about how his (atypical) experience not living in a house gave him a bit of an insight into some of the issues that "real" homelessness creates for people? I don't see anywhere that he claimed he was just as disadvantaged as the average homeless person or anything like that.

Aren't you hijacking the topic of homelessness here then? When people say homeless they don't mean someone who is homeless out of choice and can get out of it whenever they want to?

lowglow 10y ago

I'm just relaying my experiences and what I've seen.

e12e 10y ago
I think your comment was informative. It kind of reminds me of "There, but for Fortune", by Phil Ochs: Show me an alley, show me a train Show me a hobo who sleeps out in the rain And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why And there but for fortune, may go you or I Especially in countries with (dare I say) primitive social security, going intentionally homeless could quickly become a permanent thing. A broken down car and a medical emergency, a family tragedy -- and coming back might suddenly become an insurmountable obstacle. Difficult to get a job without a place to stay, difficult to get a place to stay without money, difficult to get money without a job...
smilingtom 10y ago
You're full of shit, man. Just another conceited young person who thinks they are getting back at all the HATERS by daring to go homeless to work on your revolutionary idea. You completely appropriated the topic of homelessness to give more credibility to your project. And then you have the AUDACITY to pretend to be amazed at the community response when you wrote a huge blog post basically crying about choosing to be homeless and wishing people would give you free shit? People like you are what is wrong with tech right now. I hope you fail.

mindslight 10y ago

Probably the best thing we can do for homelessness is to not see it as a problem of "others", but as a continuum with a self-sustaining end that anyone could end up at.

wutbrodo 10y ago

Wasn't his original comment about how his (atypical) experience not living in a house gave him a bit of an insight into some of the issues that "real" homelessness creates for people? I don't see anywhere that he claimed he was just as disadvantaged as the average homeless person or anything like that.