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One potential solution I've been pondering: Send like 4000 homeless people to a small abandoned town (like old dead mining towns and such), with gear and suppl
by yazaddaruvala 10y ago
One potential solution I've been pondering:
Send like 4000 homeless people to a small abandoned town (like old dead mining towns and such), with gear and supplies, such that they can help each other create themselves a society, simultaneously they might revive the abandoned town. If they then choose to leave, they leave. If they choose to stay they stay.
Not everyone needs to be assimilated, and us building services to help them "be successful", is the literal meaning of assimilation. Kinda like a commune or an Amish village, potentially even burning man, allow them to build themselves the society such that they are successfully able to live in.
P.S. I don't have particularly good ideas about how you keep them safe, or even if you should. It should be their society and maybe that means, allow them to make their own laws.
P.P.S. I know I'm crazy.
- strait 10y agoNot impossible, but as a proposed government-sponsored program in this day and age, impossible.
- thisrod 10y agoYou should read The Fatal Shore.
- nradov 10y agoThere have been programs similar to that in the past. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multnomah_County_Poor_Farm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multnomah_County_Poor_Farm