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> Rates of homelessness are not correlated with "life choices" What could this possibly even mean? Someone roles a dice and then somebody materializes on the s
by anm89 4y ago
> Rates of homelessness are not correlated with "life choices"
What could this possibly even mean? Someone roles a dice and then somebody materializes on the side of the road with a tent and a shopping cart and a fentanyl addiction?
This person just existed in a choiceless state up until the exact moment where the gained agency and simultaneously became homeless?
- janalsncm 4y agoIt means that poor choices and addiction can’t explain why San Francisco has so much higher homelessness than other places like West Virginia, which has much higher addiction rates.
- anm89 4y agoIt certainly does not mean that poor choices and addiction haven't lead to any or even most of the outcomes in SF. It means that the exact combination of dynamics in SF have produced different rates of homelessness than other places. Nothing more or less. It does not even come close to justifying the statement > Rates of homelessness are not correlated with "life choices" or "events" at all