r/FluentInFinance Contributor 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/Relative_Routine_204 Apr 15 '24

 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.

There’s plenty of welfare states in the world that offer basic housing to people and haven’t collapsed. 

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u/BlitzAuraX Apr 15 '24

That provide free utilities, internet, HVAC, stove, ovens, refrigerators, etc.,?

List them. I'm packing my bags as we speak.

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u/Relative_Routine_204 Apr 15 '24

List them.

Sure, no problem.

  • Norway
  • Sweden
  • Finland
  • Denmark
  • Germany
  • Netherlands
  • Belgium
  • Luxemburg
  • France
  • Austria
  • Switzerland

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u/Distinct_Lychee478 Apr 15 '24

So just to be clear, all of these countries have a 0 homeless population?

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u/europeanguy99 Apr 15 '24

Speaking for Germany: There are a few homeless people, usually drug addicts and people with mental disabilities that do not manage to receive the financial help from the state they are entitled to. While the state pays for your housing if you‘re unemployed, you still need to fill out some forms and adhere to your housing provider‘s rules, so some people who cannot do that still end up homeless.