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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28140949
Coming from someone who has never experienced it, nor has anyone in his family history. That is what needs to change in every billionaires life. Make them homeless foa few years and see how they handle it
Sadly they can't experience it. Not really.
I remember awhile ago there was some grifter YouTube channel that was posting "Homeless to $100k" videos.
Like even in their made up scenario the first thing they do is ask a friend for a place to stay and some cash.
Like, that's literally the hardest step and they just act like it's so simple to the point of not even addressing it.
Most of the difference between people that end up in the final stage of homelessness and people that got back on their feet is the support systems that are available to them.
Which is why people that work to end homelessness do a lot of work focusing on keeping people from even getting to that last stage of homelessness in the first place. It's much easier for our society to provide safetynets long before anyone ends up on the street addicted to drugs.
Well, times change as often as minds do, so I like to think anything can happen to anyone any time
his post is factually incorrect, of course.
https://adcare.com/addiction-demographics/homeless-population/
"homeless" is a term used to describe someone who does not live inside a domicile, 40-60% of all homeless people have and hold down jobs.
There's two types of homeless people. Temporary or chronically. The percentage of chronically homeless who are drug addicts, severely mentally ill, or both (self medication) is around 60-80 (this can vary largely by area).
That's not to say that drug addicts and severely mentally ill people don't need help, but it's like people want to pretend that they don't exist because they make addressing the homeless issue way more complicated, because at a certain point you have to talk about involuntarily committing people to mental asylums.
To be fair, that is kinda nonsense. Germany and austria, for example have a lot of support networks for people in need, we even have entire networks dedicated to supporting homeless people, so nobody has to be homeless here - yet we do have a lot of them. For some people, homelessness is almost a choice more than an involuntary decision.
Obviously, idk how this would be in america, but I don't think it would be a lot different.
Homelessness is never a lie. Beggars, however, do sometimes game the system trying to get easy money. They are not nor ever have been homeless