There is no actual, tangible reason why we allow people to starve, to be homeless, to suffer and die needlessly. Food is plentiful. Empty homes are plentiful. Medicine is plentiful. It’s hidden away behind constructs and we pretend those constructs mean something. There is an empty home and a homeless family, give them it. There is a sick child and common medicine to treat it, give it to them. There is a starving person and so much food wasted by corporations or hidden behind a dollar sign, feed them.
I see op and everyone in the notes doesn’t have a grasp on scarcity and basic economics, not to mention how or why the majority of homeless people are actually homeless
A false scarcity made up by the people who control these resources as a means to steal money from the poor is hardly excuse. There are more empty homes than homeless people in the United States, there is enough food to feed everyone in the world, medicine is a created resource that’s produced in subpar qualities specifically to keep people from being treated fully. The majority of homeless people are homeless because of predators. Lgbt youth who were thrown out or kicked out make up a large number of the homeless. Mental illness leads many people to homelessness. Drug addiction leads people to homelessness.
Acting like being homeless is some kind of moral failing is a misguided lack of understanding on your part. And “basic economics” means nothing except creating a false scarcity for profit. Nestle steals clean water from populations and creates situations like Flint, Michigan’s water crisis.
Maybe “basic economics” is actually part of the problem.
Person who has never explored economics further than listening to American right-wing talk show hosts claims others to not grasp “basic economics”
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