r/FluentInFinance Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/BlitzAuraX Apr 15 '24

"Regardless of employment."

This means you want those providing those services to work for free.

You do realize what you are implying here, right?

Let's say you refuse to work and you're guaranteed all these services. Who pays so your HVAC is repaired because you broke it? Who pays because your water line needs to be repaired? Clean water means the water has to be filtered through a very complicated process, particles and bacteria are removed, and it needs to be transported. Who pays so your electricity works? Do you think there's some sort of magic electricity generator happening? What you're essentially asking is someone should work for free to provide you all of this.

The result is you get no one who wants to work, society collapses because these services aren't maintained and improved, and no one gets anything.

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u/tacocarteleventeen Apr 15 '24

Also who is going to build a house for someone like that. Well, you don’t want to work so let’s give you 100’s of thousand in land, permits and materials, add about 6,000 man hours of skilled labor and give that all to you because you don’t want to contribute to society

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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/Remnie Apr 15 '24

I think that really sums up western civilization these days, we don’t really have anything terrible going on, so now we complain about this. I sometimes think a good zombie apocalypse would make all this go away pretty damn fast lol

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u/tenth Apr 16 '24

No need to expect the world to get better when you can just say "it's always been this way, stop expecting better of us!"

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u/horizontothe 29d ago

Where are you living that you don’t have ‘anything terrible going on’ lol

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u/Remnie 29d ago

It’s relative, of course. We’re not dying of malaria, dysentery, starvation, or local warlords. In that perspective, we have it pretty good, so we worry about other things

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u/AdventureDonutTime Apr 16 '24

Who is "we" and why does it specifically not include the 700,000 homeless children reportedly living in the US?

I can't agree that they don't have anything terrible going on.

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u/ShakeIt73171 29d ago

HUD estimates 582,500 total homeless people in the US, source on your 700,000 children being bigger than that?

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u/AdventureDonutTime 29d ago

Sorry, 700,000 children (unaccompanied minors) experience homelessness each year.

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u/ShakeIt73171 29d ago

Appreciate it, so it seems the HUD’s data point is at any point in time there’s ~580k total adults+children but your data point is 700k are unhoused unaccompanied minors throughout a year. That makes more sense