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> Statistically you're just a few days of bad luck from being both homeless and carless. What makes you think so? The poster you replied to might be sitting o
by eru 1y ago
> Statistically you're just a few days of bad luck from being both homeless and carless.
What makes you think so? The poster you replied to might be sitting on a decent nest egg, have supportive friends and family, and insurance against all contingencies.
And some people are willing to bite the bullet and even say: 'Well, in that case, I shouldn't be on the bus, either.
Though it's fairly clear from context that the commenter you replied to doesn't want to check every person's home address before they are let on the bus. They want to ban anti-social behaviour on the bus, and 'homeless' is just a short hand for that, unfortunate as it is.
And a few days of bad luck might make you lose your home, but won't necessarily turn you into a drunk who shouts a lot.
- viraptor 1y ago> What makes you think so? "In effect, more than half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and one crisis away from homelessness." https://www.usich.gov/guidance-reports-data/data-trends https://www.usich.gov/guidance-reports-data/data-trends I don't know the commenter specifically - that's why I said statistically. > Though it's fairly clear from context Ah, the classic "didn't mean the well presented part of group X when I said X". That's a cliche way to mask prejudice. No, if they didn't actually mean homeless, I'm calling them out on writing "homeless".
- eru 1y ago> "In effect, more than half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and one crisis away from homelessness." They say that, but they don't really substantiate that on the page you linked to.
- viraptor 1y agoIf only we could follow links and had some form of search for similar text to find multiple studies published on that topic...