> Now every city has an arrangement of public outhouses, with maintenance staff that cycles between the locations cleaning things? Yes because the alternative

> Now every city has an arrangement of public outhouses, with maintenance staff that cycles between the locations cleaning things? Yes because the alternative is human shit on the streets. I'd rather my tax dollars pay for public toilets because at least I can use those toilets too when I need them. More generally, I often see this imagination that unemployed, unhoused, unfed people will just go crawl in a culvert and quietly die. They won't. They will find resources one way or another. A living human requires "x" amount of resources to live and them being alive is evidence they're getting it from somewhere. If they're not getting those resources from gainful employment or public/private charity, they're getting them from crime. It doesn't matter if you lock them up in prison, kick them out of the cities, tear down their shanty towns. They will continue taking a certain amount of resources from our overall economy (one way or another) in order to stay alive. Our economy is paying for all these unemployed people anyways -- we don't need to force them to get really good at various types of "crime", we can just accept the cost and use taxes to allocate the necessary resources. Or you know, we could just murder them all. But again -- people don't just quietly stand in line to be killed. The harder you make their life, the harder they fight to live, and you really won't like the reactions to ("natural consequences of") a policy to "fuck the indigents as hard as possible". FFS I'm in the top 10% of monthly income in the USA and even I was homeless for 2 weeks just last month after a sudden divorce and often had to find a restroom or piss on the street. I also had COVID while living in my car which made me have a very sudden urge to piss every 2 hours.