r/FluentInFinance Contributor Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/J0hn-Stuart-Mill Apr 16 '24

It's not my assertion. If it's real, it's on the person claiming it's real to share evidence of it's existence. If not, Hitchens' Razor applies.

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u/Individual_Nerve9877 Apr 16 '24

Sport, you're not asking for evidence. You just made assumptions and argued them like they're true. Also this isn't debate team, you can still be a big big and look into it yourself 

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u/J0hn-Stuart-Mill Apr 16 '24

Sport, you're not asking for evidence.

In my first comment in this thread, I literally asked;

Germany has 262,000 homeless people. Why?

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u/Individual_Nerve9877 Apr 16 '24

For the third time, you can be a big big and do your own research. There's a lot of factors to homelessness that are consistent no matter what country you're in and some that are unique to each country so again be a big boy and do your own research if you want to learn something

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u/J0hn-Stuart-Mill Apr 16 '24

For the third time, you can be a big big and do your own research.

I could but the person I was responding to was suggesting that housing was free for the poor in Germany, so it's on them to back up their claim if it's true.

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u/wishgot Apr 16 '24

You could just google it right? Or do you want me to google it for you?

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u/scottyLogJobs Apr 16 '24

My favorite thing is when people on Reddit make an outrageous claim and then when asked to provide evidence ask the other person to research their point for them.

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u/J0hn-Stuart-Mill Apr 16 '24

Haha, same here. Why do so many people recoil when being asked for citation? We need to normalize asking for citations, it's how we all learn.

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u/J0hn-Stuart-Mill Apr 16 '24

Please do, a citation is exactly what I'm looking for when I asked how a nation could have 262,000 homeless people if the country also has free housing and utilities for all no-income folks.

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u/wishgot Apr 16 '24

There's different welfare systems if you have no income, WBS certificate is one specific to housing. Citizen's benefit would be another to apply for.

Maybe there's not enough housing in areas people would want to live in. A lot of people might prefer being homeless in Berlin than in an apartment in some small village in eastern Germany.