The reason why there’s so many homeless

homelessness is just a consequence of capitalism not everyone goina make it

 

The government nor anyone else can "easily" house the homeless.

The government nor anyone else is "forcing" the homeless to camp anywhere.

The reason why there is less hobos in the rich areas is that the rich have the means to keep them out.

 

Wow, homelessness is a consequence of capitalism? I wish somebody had told that to the thousands of homeless Russians the Soviets put in detention centres after making homelessness illegal.

 

Well said. I don't know if OP is American, and I'm not, but whenever anyone brings up homeless I always think of California. An extremely liberal, supposedly progressive state compared to muh evil red states, with more homeless than New York, another liberal state. The two of them combined have way more homeless than third place, which I think is either Texas or Florida. It's liberal policies that are supposedly so wonderful for the working class that is flooding places like New York City, LA, and San Francisco with tens of thousands of homeless drug addicts. It's because of liberal policies that taxes are so high, inflation is through the roof, and quality of life is dropping. But yeah, #BlueWave2024, at least there are no more mean tweets.

 

That makes absolutely no sense.

Rich people can keep homeless people out of their neigborhoods, because their police departments are well funded and have the resources to keep their towns clean. They also have passive measures which make being homeless uncomfortable such as architecture that disallows people to sleep on the sidewalk. Street lights that stay on in parks all night, and aggressive patrolling that arrests trespassers and gives them bonds that they surely will never be able to afford.

Poorer neighborhoods don't have these resources.

Homelessness also is the result of capitalism, because homelessness exists in many countries and their are many factors that cause it. Not being able to get a job is not a primary factor.

>inb4 the commies on this website try to school me on why I'm wrong and their violent failed ideology is right.

 

Homelessness has existed ever since the concept of people living in houses has existed. But people love to blame capitalism for things it had little or nothing to do with while shifting the blame when confronted on why their own failed ideologies, well, failed. I'm not saying anyone who criticizes capitalism is a commie, but I've yet to see a system to replace it that isn't at worst evil and stupid or at best naïve and stupid. Like a certain thrash singer said, "If there's a new way, Oh, I'll be the first in line, But it better work this time."

 

The CCP is still here, they went from having a gdp smaller than morroco in the 90s to today having a gdp bigger than the whole EU put together, so hardly a failure, what's more they don't have the same problem of homelessness as the US despite having nearly 1/10 of their income/capita. Either way both of those have millions of empty houses, in the case of china literal ghost cities but at least they provide shelter to their homeless.

 

Communism in China is a failed ideology because they aren't truly communist. China has been steadily moving away from pure communism into state capitalism for decades. The same is true for nearly all "communist" countries and the same is true for nearly all "capitalist" countries. Even the US isn't really capitalist and hasn't been for decades either. The idea that a nation is entirely one thing or another is simplistic and reductive.

But hey, I'm not a political theorist and am not taking this thread all that seriously. I'm just here to laugh at liberals.

 

"Communist" China in the years between Deng and Covid when its breakneck development occurred had in many ways more business freedom than "hypercapitalist" USA.

That's not to say that socialist policies can't decrease homelessness, they can. But they can't quite eradicate it, especially under institance on the so-called human rights.

But to say that modern capitalism is somehow unique in generating homelessness is absurd. Throughout the human history, the streets all around the world were filled with beggars. The situation in the developed world is significantly better now than it used to be.

 

Increase in homelessness pushes the value of nearby properties down, not up.

 

what should the people do? I see no alternative but armed resistance… which will lead to a sure death… since the police department is filled with people who want to be able to afford their families and food

it’s like the options are be a wage slave and work crappy job to pay rent OR armed resistance which will pretty much 100% lead to death or imprisonment…

makes me kind of see why criminals and people in the porn industry do what they do… it’s a way to make money that isn’t the same crappy way as everyone else

 

homelessness is caused by all sorts of reasons reasons outside of society .

goes all the way back to not having enough wood

 

There is homeless because they need to own nothing and be happy

 

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