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warning26 | karma 4000 | avg karma 4.13 · 2022-10-23 17:57:37

There's one way to solve homelessness and it's to get rid of the homeless people. You help those who accept help and lock up the rest.

Any other "solution" is just a waste of time.

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whythre | karma 628 | avg karma 1.52 · 2022-10-23 18:06:36

There is a large number of homeless living close to my work in a semi-permanent camp. They wander into the lobby fairly often and I feel bad for the workers and customers stuck in the room with them… but l feel even worse about the homeless folks themselves. Some of them have addiction problems but all of the ones I have had experience with have had profound mental issues.

For all the problems with institutionalization, it seems brutal that these people are just left to fend for themselves on the street.

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hindsightbias | karma 3833 | avg karma 1.24 · 2022-10-23 19:03:13

It’s a mystery to me how a place like HN, of all places, doesn’t celebrate the maximum freedom model we live in today. This is what utopia looks like.