> If you want to discuss the economic system and the rich, that's an entirely different conversation. Discussing the working person's need to house those that a

> If you want to discuss the economic system and the rich, that's an entirely different conversation. Discussing the working person's need to house those that aren't working? It's the same conversation. The only reason the burden falls upon us at all is because the tax system is fundamentally broken. No reasonably organized resource allocation algorithm would allow so many people to hoard so much of our wealth. If our resources were allocated more efficiently, it wouldn't just be the homeless that the state could house comfortably, it would be all of us. After all, Singapore manages it, and they also have a mostly broken tax system, just slightly less broken than other places. Preventing a stranger's death from starvation and exposure has been a bare minimum for human decency in many cultures for thousands of years. You've read about it in the Greek and Roman stories you had to read in school, where a god shows up disguised as a beggar. Native Americans had similar stories, so did Peloponnesians, Chinese, areas in Africa, northern Europe... It's a modern degeneration of our human values that this is considered such a big ask. We used to accept that we're responsible for each other's well being.