> I just can't understand why people are so averse to letting situations play themselves out. If you are getting evicted by your landlord so he can turn your a

> I just can't understand why people are so averse to letting situations play themselves out. If you are getting evicted by your landlord so he can turn your apartment into an illgal hotel, you do not have the luxury to let things play out. You have to find new housing immediately or become homeless. Most people, especially those who are poor, live life on a more day to day basis. Your home is connected to your community: the friends who support you, the extended family who provide free child care, or the elderly and infirm members of your community whom you check up on. Being driven out of your home through no fault of your own, so that your landlord can run what amounts to an illegal hotel no less, is a crisis, not something to play wait and see on. It's true that we will reach equilibrium in the long term, but to quote John Maynard Keynes, "In the long run we are all dead."