• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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    Part of the debacle of giving homeless people free homes, would make everyone else wonder why TF we’re working so hard for 90% of our net income to be sucked away by the housing industry just so we can keep a basic roof over our heads.

    You mean IF I DIDN’T WORK AT ALL, the government would GIVE me a FREE house?? If that were the case, people would decide that laziness is more rewarding than hard honest work.

    This is why the government doesn’t give homes to homeless people. Although I read two days ago that in the USA there is a ratio of 27.4 empty houses per each homeless person.

    But those houses must remain empty in the name of capitalism, for money-havers to do whatever they want with those houses. Anything but using it to house a needy, money-less person.

    The fear of homelessness & starvation & suffering are what motivates everyone to keep working our asses off.

    And after all that, any able-bodied people who still insist on sleeping & shitting on the streets & refusing to contribute to society & the economy, can be scooped up like kitty litter and dumped into for-profit prisons where they’ll be assigned jobs.

    Work & service to others, is the rent we all pay for living on this planet.

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        3 hours ago

        orc_ [email protected]

        You said before deleting:

        I’m sure every homeless person could have a home if they just tried harder! This isn’t the most inhumane, cruel system ever!

        I’m literally homeless too (I live in a van in order to have freedom, autonomy, and owe nothing to landlords or mortgage companies), and I see the housing industry for what it is, it wants to drain nearly every dime out of everyone, exploiting everyone’s basic human need for shelter. It’s extortion and I have no desire to be a victim or slave to it.

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          Yeah, I deleted because I originally misread/misinterpreted your comment as a defense for the system rather than criticism, being tired and all. Please dismiss what I said.

          I wish you good luck and all the support you deserve and need to get out of this situation.

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            Ah yes thank you for understanding. I re-visited what I wrote & you’re right, it can be interpreted two different ways, and you’re right, I wrote it from a critical perspective, I despise what capitalism & the housing industry have done to us.

            As far as me needing to escape my current living situation? I live in a brand new off-grid Mercedes Sprinter with solar panels & plumbing & refrigerator & convection oven. I can literally live anywhere I want without paying rent or mortgage, and I imagine most people would want to get out of THEIR situations to enjoy this type of freedom! I’m quite in bliss!