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Seriously, get off the internet and go volunteer at St Anthony's for an hour. You'll get to meet some representative sample of the homeless in San Francisco and
by shalmanese 8y ago
Seriously, get off the internet and go volunteer at St Anthony's for an hour. You'll get to meet some representative sample of the homeless in San Francisco and gain a much more high resolution picture on what all the various causes of homelessness are. The picture is complicated but it's not at all what you're positing.
I guarantee if you spend a week working with the homeless in San Francisco, you'll meet at least some people more intelligent than you, people who at one point earned more money than you, people who are more mentally composed and happy than you. You won't meet all of them in the same person but you'll meet at least one example of someone who can disprove every single simplistic pet theory about homelessness ever proposed.
- rsync 8y agoYou're talking past me to a prototypical "person who (you) disagree with". To wit: - I made no comments about homeless people being uninteresting or unintelligent or how much money they do, or did earn, etc. - I have presented no pet theories about the causes of homelessness or the demerits of the homeless. I have simply pointed out that a very, very commonly published and cited statistic is, in my opinion, very ill defined and probably misused. I also suggested a possible alternative narrative that I suspect is more correct. Please don't put all of the things you hate into a box and then shove me in there with it. "Seriously, get off the internet and go volunteer at St Anthony's for an hour." I have done that all over the world. Cheers!
- shalmanese 8y agoIf you suspect it's more correct, go out and verify it (hint: It's not).