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Agreed. This suggests to me that homelessness and drug use may be orthogonal problems. If you triple my rent over the next 10 years, without raising my income
by singlepaynews 3y ago
Agreed. This suggests to me that homelessness and drug use may be orthogonal problems.
If you triple my rent over the next 10 years, without raising my income, then I'm gonna be homeless. No drug use necessary, batteries included, no assembly required.
- meiraleal 3y agoDo you know that the person raising your rent isn't the same person that pays your salary, right? And raising it is mostly up to you. Doing drugs because you are incapable of matching society's dynamics isn't an excuse
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- NoGravitas 3y agoMaybe raising it is "up to you", but it's up to you within the context of an existing economy, not a vacuum. "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already..."
- singlepaynews 3y ago> the person raising your rent isn't the same person that pays your salary Yes, I am aware > raising it is mostly up to you The rent? Or the salary? > Doing drugs because you are incapable of matching society's dynamics isn't an excuse Like I said, 3xrent creates a homeless me, no drugs involved