If that door was open, the bed would be destroyed.
Capitalism isn’t perfect, but it’s the system with the best outcomes we’ve actually tried. Open markets, property rights, and trade drive productivity and innovation, which is why extreme poverty has collapsed wherever countries have adopted them (East Asia, India, parts of Eastern Europe).
Yeah, Argentina is full (or was full) of socialism and we have a ton of them in the street. And inflation, starvation, inequality, price controls, stagnation, poverty, malnutrition, entitlements… . It was the socialist paradise🥰
More like “MENTAL ILLNESS”
Cmon yall, homelessness is far more nuanced than just “capitalism is flawed”. 🤦♂️
You mean how a small percentage of us sleep on the nicest stoops in the world…
Or like pre capitalism where we all slept in shacks?
Cause if you want to denounce capitalism……… I can arrange a shack for you to sleep in.
Did someone have their first beer, are you 12 years old ?
“Homelessness” is everywhere around the world, and has always existed.
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, and near a thousand tables pined and wanted for food.
Wordsworth
If it was in a communist or socialist country we all be like that.
Why don’t people go shopping for beds in homeless shelters? Some beds are for sleeping; some beds are for sales showrooms. It’s not that hard, man.
If the government were to intervene and allocate resources to help this individual, our politicians would have less in order to ” bless Israel ” with. Christian Zionists would lose their minds, and our congressmen would have fewer bombs to sign cute little phrases on to drop on Palestinians.
There is many reasons someone ends up on the street. I, myself believes that governments often failed to see the hidden cost of having ten of thousands people not paying income taxes, needing expensive healthcare (if provided), city cleaning expenses and commercial losses due to unsafe and unpleasant shopping experiences. Add to that stress experienced by family members that can lead to further hidden costs.
I feel sad that our society has not yet figured out how to offer efficient way to prevent this, however I wouldn’t especially blame a capitalistic systems. Back in the days, we didn’t have the opioid crisis, communities were closer and churches gave a helping hand. We are just experiencing a lack of solutions (willfull or not) to those support systems disappearing.
Ban OP
Now do Cuba
This thread has been hijacked and gone shit.
The US isnt a fully capitalist society; it’s more of a blend known as a mixed economy, where both private enterprise and government regulation co-exist.
Regulatory agencies, safety nets, and government programs exist alongside private enterprise and profit-driven investment, meaning the U.S. does not embody unfettered “laissez-faire” capitalism.
The primary problem here is zoning laws and other restrictions that prevent a sufficient amount of housing to be built, not “capitalism” in some super vague and broad sense.
Capitalism can work wonders when it’s properly regulated by the state. In many cases, such as the concentration of market power in essentially every industry in the U.S., the state is doing a horrible job of fostering competition that drives down prices, improves quality, and enabling smaller players and upstarts to compete. In the case of housing, local governments are doing a horrible job in the opposite direction via over regulation – it’s prohibitively difficult and expensive to add new housing essentially anywhere, which leads to supply constraints, high prices, and homelessness. Both sides of the political spectrum should be pushing hard to make it easy to add new housing to a market, as it solves so many problems and aligns with the freedom-loving values of conservatives and the desire of liberals to house the homeless and make housing more affordable to lower income groups.
We also shouldn’t assume someone who’s homeless is mentally ill or addicted to drugs, but that said I completely agree we should have govt facilities to help people with mental illnesses, drug problems, and homelessness issues get back on their feet. It’s the humane thing to do and is a more efficient use of govt resources
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Why didn’t you go invite them into your home
If that door was open, the bed would be destroyed.
Capitalism isn’t perfect, but it’s the system with the best outcomes we’ve actually tried. Open markets, property rights, and trade drive productivity and innovation, which is why extreme poverty has collapsed wherever countries have adopted them (East Asia, India, parts of Eastern Europe).
Yeah, Argentina is full (or was full) of socialism and we have a ton of them in the street. And inflation, starvation, inequality, price controls, stagnation, poverty, malnutrition, entitlements… . It was the socialist paradise🥰
More like “MENTAL ILLNESS”
Cmon yall, homelessness is far more nuanced than just “capitalism is flawed”. 🤦♂️
You mean how a small percentage of us sleep on the nicest stoops in the world…
Or like pre capitalism where we all slept in shacks?
Cause if you want to denounce capitalism……… I can arrange a shack for you to sleep in.
Did someone have their first beer, are you 12 years old ?
“Homelessness” is everywhere around the world, and has always existed.
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, and near a thousand tables pined and wanted for food.
Wordsworth
If it was in a communist or socialist country we all be like that.
Why don’t people go shopping for beds in homeless shelters? Some beds are for sleeping; some beds are for sales showrooms. It’s not that hard, man.
If the government were to intervene and allocate resources to help this individual, our politicians would have less in order to ” bless Israel ” with. Christian Zionists would lose their minds, and our congressmen would have fewer bombs to sign cute little phrases on to drop on Palestinians.
There is many reasons someone ends up on the street. I, myself believes that governments often failed to see the hidden cost of having ten of thousands people not paying income taxes, needing expensive healthcare (if provided), city cleaning expenses and commercial losses due to unsafe and unpleasant shopping experiences. Add to that stress experienced by family members that can lead to further hidden costs.
I feel sad that our society has not yet figured out how to offer efficient way to prevent this, however I wouldn’t especially blame a capitalistic systems. Back in the days, we didn’t have the opioid crisis, communities were closer and churches gave a helping hand. We are just experiencing a lack of solutions (willfull or not) to those support systems disappearing.
Ban OP
Now do Cuba
This thread has been hijacked and gone shit.
The US isnt a fully capitalist society; it’s more of a blend known as a mixed economy, where both private enterprise and government regulation co-exist.
Regulatory agencies, safety nets, and government programs exist alongside private enterprise and profit-driven investment, meaning the U.S. does not embody unfettered “laissez-faire” capitalism.
The primary problem here is zoning laws and other restrictions that prevent a sufficient amount of housing to be built, not “capitalism” in some super vague and broad sense.
Capitalism can work wonders when it’s properly regulated by the state. In many cases, such as the concentration of market power in essentially every industry in the U.S., the state is doing a horrible job of fostering competition that drives down prices, improves quality, and enabling smaller players and upstarts to compete. In the case of housing, local governments are doing a horrible job in the opposite direction via over regulation – it’s prohibitively difficult and expensive to add new housing essentially anywhere, which leads to supply constraints, high prices, and homelessness. Both sides of the political spectrum should be pushing hard to make it easy to add new housing to a market, as it solves so many problems and aligns with the freedom-loving values of conservatives and the desire of liberals to house the homeless and make housing more affordable to lower income groups.
We also shouldn’t assume someone who’s homeless is mentally ill or addicted to drugs, but that said I completely agree we should have govt facilities to help people with mental illnesses, drug problems, and homelessness issues get back on their feet. It’s the humane thing to do and is a more efficient use of govt resources
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