(03-04-2020, 11:58 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(03-04-2020, 09:35 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: Of course the economy can be good when there are "so many" homeless.
1. "So many" is still a tiny number compared to the total population. The economy can be good without reaching impossible perfection for every person.
2. A significant proportion of the homeless choose to live that way over their available options to live in a home. Why should we deny them agency to make their own choices?
A quick google brought up 552,830 homeless one night in 2018. That is about 17 per 10,000 people. If one’s heart is small enough, and of course you happen not to be one of the half million, you can ignore them.
We must stop looking at it that a person is not "feeling" when they have such views.
My post was asking all of us to consider we are being TRAINED to ignore what is right in front of us. I am unsure if folks drive by homeless tents/boxes with judgment, and every time they think "well, they chose to live there".
I don't think that's happening. Although, yes some ppl are thinking that, I'm not concerned with that person's view/ideology.
Are we not being sort of conditioned to think the sheer numbers are not "real"?
Thousands of people in big cities. Hundreds in suburbs.
ALL OF THEM.
There is not a big city or suburb where they don't exist. How are so many of us so accustomed now to say "yeah, that's OK, we have always had "UNFORTUNATES" among us". And no outrage. Is it easier to do and say nothing? Because we can't change it?
But we have an influence when we decide in our minds to accept "the economy" as doing "OK" as we have done for the past few years now, when there are that many people living without walls.
I'm not asking anyone to line up on the corner with protest signs although that would be a good thing. Only keep it in mind when you decide in some election of some politician: "IS THE ECONOMY DOING OK?".
CAN IT EVER be OK in the situation described by myself and others in this thread.
If you're ignorant, do not post here. There are plenty of other places to unfurl your blind venom upon fellow mankind.