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0 pointsb1121mo ago0 comments

This is an insane perspective.

I just gave them life, vs death. I just gave a little of myself, so they don't starve, aren't going to freeze to death, and are safe. Yes, I don't want them comfortable. You think this means I wish suffering, when I just helped them?

Absurdly selfish. "Why not give more!! How dare you only prevent starvation, giving housing, and ensure safety!! What's wrong with you!", you say?!

Blathering on about wealth and the rich is an absurd tact to take. We're talking about the fact that a person toiling every day, is giving to another who isn't. No hand wavy gibberish, will change that the house was built be a human being, one that isn't wealthy, and is paying a portion of their daily work (it's called taxes) to house someone.

If you want to donate your own effort and work to help people beyond that, no one is stopping you. But don't walk around complaining to others that giving basic necessities aren't enough.

You need to get your head on straight.

If you want to discuss the economic system and the rich, that's an entirely different conversation. Discussing the working person's need to house those that aren't working?

Keep that real.

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komali21mo ago

> If you want to discuss the economic system and the rich, that's an entirely different conversation. Discussing the working person's need to house those that aren't working?

It's the same conversation. The only reason the burden falls upon us at all is because the tax system is fundamentally broken. No reasonably organized resource allocation algorithm would allow so many people to hoard so much of our wealth. If our resources were allocated more efficiently, it wouldn't just be the homeless that the state could house comfortably, it would be all of us. After all, Singapore manages it, and they also have a mostly broken tax system, just slightly less broken than other places.

Preventing a stranger's death from starvation and exposure has been a bare minimum for human decency in many cultures for thousands of years. You've read about it in the Greek and Roman stories you had to read in school, where a god shows up disguised as a beggar. Native Americans had similar stories, so did Peloponnesians, Chinese, areas in Africa, northern Europe... It's a modern degeneration of our human values that this is considered such a big ask. We used to accept that we're responsible for each other's well being.

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