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Have you ever seen a struggling person on the street and thought they could be rehabilitated to a working life at taxpayer expense?
by dumbo-octopus 2y ago
Have you ever seen a struggling person on the street and thought they could be rehabilitated to a working life at taxpayer expense?
- Retric 2y agoNever really had that thought, most people get off the streets. Long term homeless are on the streets almost exclusively for reasons of severe mental illness not lack of skills etc.
- dumbo-octopus 2y agoAh. I should have guessed the “homeless people categorically cannot do the things I can do and never will” axiom was at the root of this argument. I chose not to be so defeatist nor elitist.
- Retric 2y agoYou have that backwards, plenty of ex homeless people working in IT. Further most homeless end up in paying jobs, which says something about those who don’t make that transition.