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Fine essay overall but “We possess the means to care for everyone -- yet choose not to” I really don’t think this is true

• Etheryte 7mo ago
  The US could make homelessness a thing of the past with a minuscule fraction of what it is spending on the military. It is very much a choice.
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  • konaraddi 7mo ago
    DoD spent $1.43 trillion in FY2026 Around ~1 million homeless in US Let’s say it costs $10K/month/person so $120K/yr/person. Probably a big overestimate but gotta include healthcare and help people with long term stability. That’s 120,000 x 1,000,000 = 120,000,000,000 or $120 billion USD. Idk what the Nth order effects would be but yea I think what you’re saying tracks in the numbers
  • slopinthebag 7mo ago
    You cannot just throw money at a problem like homelessness in order to fix it. That is such an incredibly reductive viewpoint. It's akin to saying 9 mothers can birth a child in a month - oh look, we solved the population decline crisis! Someone go tell Japan!
  • PhilipRoman 7mo ago
    For an ideal ('spherical cow in a vacuum') type of homeless person, sure.