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So you want to spend 60k/yr on prison times the homeless population of America? Because that’s what your comment suggests and there’s a litany of better options
by Red_Leaves_Flyy 4y ago
So you want to spend 60k/yr on prison times the homeless population of America? Because that’s what your comment suggests and there’s a litany of better options.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI have yet to see a better option in action. It would be nice to have sufficient supply of quality mental healthcare and oversight to prevent abuse of involuntary committal, but as far as I see, that is a pipe dream.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 4y agoHave we tried dragging the army Corp of engineers in to build housing? What about a national jobs guarantee? National healthcare that can’t bankrupt people? I’ve met a lot of homeless people in my life, most have no use for a counselor. They’re largely uninterested in self actualization or recovery. They want safe shelter, affordable and accessible healthcare, reliable transportation, a job they can be proud of that provides for them and their family consistently. These people are gripped by despair and acting it against society at large because society has relegated them to the fringes as useless, hopeless, and expendable. Housing, healthcare, and respect for each individual human is the minimum. Just because that won’t scale does not it can be ignored. Ignoring this is how we got here. Continue ignoring it and we’ll probably see more tech bros murdered in broad daylight. We might also see the security teams of these tech bros commit a few massacres.