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Shouldn’t the strategy be to disincentivize bums congregating in your neighborhood?
by tiahura 3y ago
Shouldn’t the strategy be to disincentivize bums congregating in your neighborhood?
- helpfulContrib 3y agoMaybe the strategy should be more to incentivize people to live more safely and comfortably in nature and less in their boxes of inordinate consumption. Homelessness could become a good thing, if we get our tech right. (Disclaimer: Tree-hugging hippy who believes we should be dropping Kelly Kettles, not bombs..)
- sp332 3y agoAverage rent in London is over $2,000 per month. You don’t have to be a bum to be homeless.
- jebarker 3y agoand median income in London appears to be ~41K GBP, so that rent would be about 80% of the income. No wonder there's lots of homelessness.
- devoutsalsa 3y agoIf you can’t buy boots, you can just buy the laces, so there’s no excuse to avoid pulling yourself up by your bootstraps #sarcasm
- Sakos 3y agoYes, the solution must be to redirect homeless elsewhere so they're no longer your problem, instead of actually helping people.
- circuit10 3y agoThese are people with a life and feelings and needs just as much as you. If you were in a rough situation and needed some help, how would it feel to have people dehumanise you with comments like this as if you’re some sort of pest and just want you to go away somewhere else instead of helping?
- gruez 3y agoAll of this is easy to say when you're personally not affected by them.
- circuit10 3y agoBut is that really a good enough reason to dehumanise people? Because them existing annoys you?
- dmbche 3y agoHow do "they" affect you, poor soul?
- NotYourLawyer 3y agoThey shit and piss on the sidewalk. They yell profanities at people walking by. The (occasionally at least) assault people. How do they not affect you?
- mcpackieh 3y agoHours of blood-curdling screaming in the middle of the night, waking up people who are trying to get sleep before going to work. But I can tell from your tone that you've already decided you don't care about anything the homeless might do to other people.
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