> Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but where am I advocating for homelessness? Your suggestion that everyone would simply stop working if people were able to surviv

> Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but where am I advocating for homelessness? Your suggestion that everyone would simply stop working if people were able to survive on an equivalent to a minimum wage stipend relies heavily on the assumption that people only work in order to provide food and shelter for themselves. In this model people never do labor for reasons such as passion, interest, curiosity, a sense of civic duty, or simply to have more money to spend on recreation. By your reasoning the only reason why anyone would ever work, ever, is to avoid starvation or being homeless. For that motivation to exist, there would need to be a constant real threat of starvation or loss of housing tied to your ability to find and perform work (which is the current system in the US.) That motivation couldn’t be real if homelessness didn’t exist. For your model to work it quite literally relies on homeless people existing as a sort of reminder that you have to continue working.