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Portland to evict nearly 100 shelter residents who are ‘unwilling to engage’
(www.oregonlive.com)
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Society can't support too many people who want to sit around and get high without contributing.
The reason we produce more than enough is because of the people who do contribute. If they start opting out because they see other folks skating by then soon we aren't producing enough.
How many people do you honestly think will look at these tiny homes with the bare necessities and decide that’s better than working? During the pandemic, many people had, for the first time in their lives, financial support and no work. They took up hobbies and started businesses in large numbers, because people don’t generally enjoy being totally unproductive for long stretches of time.
If the number of people who don’t want to work gets to be too high, we cut the funding. I just don’t think it’ll come to that, because most people generally like doing more than subsisting.