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For me the main reason is that I can be fairly sure that my neighbors are not starving, surviving on 7.25$/h jobs, getting crushed by medical debt or choosing n

by yread 6y ago

For me the main reason is that I can be fairly sure that my neighbors are not starving, surviving on 7.25$/h jobs, getting crushed by medical debt or choosing not to address their medical issues because of money, there are (almost) no homeless people (in Amsterdam),... Minimum wage is ~1/2-1/3 of my salary so I know that everyone is doing OK.

krageon 6y ago
> there are (almost) no homeless people (in Amsterdam) Any space that has few homeless in the Netherlands doesn't have them because the police removes them (that is to say, they dump them elsewhere or otherwise force them to leave).
- yread 6y ago
  Yes, of course there are people without housing, but there is infrastructure to care for them (I live quite close to one of these houses) so they don't freeze on the streets, don't develop months-untreated abscesses and don't bother me on the street. My taxes pay for that but that's exactly what taxes should pay for IMO.