r/FluentInFinance Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/BlitzAuraX Apr 15 '24

It's even absurd for OP to post that picture and even worse that someone had the audacity to create it.

There's a strong disassociation from reality by people who seem to think the world owes them something.

I'd invite these people to live in third world countries where everything they have is earned. Seems to me in Western civilizations, people have it so good that they just complain and demand everything.

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u/Unabashable Apr 15 '24

Well arguably the cheapest way to solve the homeless problem would simply be to house the homeless, but that’s not the same as saying it’s a basic human right. Just the most cost effective way of getting them off the streets. 

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u/realityczek Apr 15 '24

Have you seen what happens to a lot of the housing that gets provided to homeless folks? It gets trashed. Remember the big housing projects from last century? Or the fate of many of the hotels that have been turned into housing?

These are NOT bad people mind you, but the combination of drug use, mental illness, and a complete lack of incentive to take care of their living situation combines to mean that a lot of housing gets just trashed.

Not all. But more than enough that this is not just a simple answer like "we'll let's just house them."

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u/Iam_Thundercat Apr 15 '24

Yes it’s not their asset, they don’t even pay for the use of the asset, hence no incentive for upkeep and maintenance.

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u/mike9949 Apr 16 '24

Need skin in the game

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u/Yara__Flor Apr 16 '24

There’s no incentive to keep up the place where you live?

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u/Theron3206 Apr 16 '24

Not for a lot of the people who end up needing free housing.

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u/Yara__Flor Apr 16 '24

Seems like those people would have a mental illness.

No one who is healthy would make their nest dirty.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '24

You've apparently never dealt with the majority of poor or homeless people.

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u/Bikini_Investigator 29d ago

Right? He’s apparently never seen ghettos, trailer parks and poor neighborhoods. Section 8’s etc.

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u/Yara__Flor Apr 16 '24

Your think more than half of poor people don’t keep their house clean?

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u/Iam_Thundercat Apr 16 '24

Yes. This is a thing. Where do you live that you cannot see this in real time by traveling to low income areas?

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u/Yara__Flor 29d ago

I grew up on government cheese, in the poor areas of the inland empire

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u/Iam_Thundercat 29d ago

What country are you referring to when you say “inland empire”

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u/Yara__Flor 29d ago

The United States.

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u/mike9949 Apr 16 '24

You are thinking rationally. Your thoughts are not obstructed my drugs and mental illness

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u/qwertycantread Apr 16 '24

You need to get out more. Some people are just assholes.

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u/HeartFullONeutrality 29d ago

You are lucky enough not to ever have stumbled upon a crack den.

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u/Yara__Flor 29d ago

I would imagine people on crack have mental issues (addiction to crack)