Your home, some billionaire’s choice.

Oh shit! Truth bomb!

You saw how that house was decorated. It was asking for it.

jesus... slow clap with deeply disgusted look on face i had all but mercifully forgotten about that

You know, I've heard that quote a lot and it never occurred to me to ask before. What's the difference between a rape and a legitimate rape? Is there a form to fill out or something?

The government isn't a monolith.

Yes, there are oligarchs influencing policies that make a standard of living hell on earth.

There are also great people within the government who are actively trying to improve the state of things.

Ooh. Me, me, me.... I am.

The government doesn't work for you. You vote then in, sure, but they work for the lobbyists of large corporate interests.

Any policy you want will only pass if the corporations want it to, or they don't believe it will make a substantive difference in their ability to exploit your labor for profit, and take from you every dime, nickel, and dollar they can. They'll only keep you happy enough to not revolt, and beyond that, you're entirely fucked from all angles.

But most of yall aren’t ready for that discussion.

Do you know where you are

It's still a choice.

It's just not a choice you made.

Sell to who Ben? A fucking dragon?

Well most of them were living in million dollar plus homes in this case, so they are very different then people who were left homeless in Appalachia due to Helene.

I think it's more about "these rich people will finally get some little taste of how hard it is to live without a home."

Except some of them won't. Those who are truly wealthy will already have other houses, or be able to buy or rent a temporary home while waiting to rebuild. If they already had empathy they'll realize how comparably " inconvenient" rather than"desperate" their situation is. The others will whine, and use it as a reason to be even shittier to the homeless.

There's a lot of people also who aren't wealthy, they have just owned a house in the Palisades from way back when it wasn't so expensive, or lived in the trailer park. They too already have attitudes re homeless people, which may or may not evolve.

I think anyone who's unhoused, it's the result of a disaster, whether a public or private one.

Yes. Parts of Canada have serious homelessness problems and many cities like mine like to pretend we don't. Our mayor routinely gets the police involved to relocate them and then is just like see problem solved!

I have a friend who chose it. Had a job with early retirement pension, was buying a house he could afford. They made a minor adjustment to his contract and he snapped, quit the job, abandoned the mortgage and let the house go back to the bank, and took his son and moved to California to live in his car. Ten years later he's still doing that. He works occasionally as a delivery driver when he feels like it.

Being a free range human has its perks...it's the way we are meant to be

Can't read that