This is the most capitalist dystopia thing I've read today!
This is the most capitalist dystopia thing you've read today, so far!
Wait until he hears about the shipping container wall at UC Berkley
As homelessness continues to grow, so does the number of those living in their vehicles.
🇺🇸 🦅 The American Dream 🦅 🇺🇸
They call it the American Dream because you gotta be asleep to believe it.
Americans are finding refuge in 'safe Hoovervilles'
Well, we are nearing the 30s 😬
Still waiting for the swinging 20s
Swingin' 1980s
Woo!! We are gonna be in a history book now! 😬
As someone who lived full time in a fifth wheel voluntarily with my family, living mobile in a tiny home, RV, or camper van can be pretty awesome. However, many of these people aren't doing it by choice and that should never be the case.
Having a tiny camper that isn’t going to break, a decent supply of food and money, and a YouTube channel all about your “Van Life” is a lot different than sleeping in the back of your car because you have no way to escape America.
Yeah that's basically what I said. Doing it by choice versus not by choice is a big difference.
Well I got what you said, guess they're just a bit grumpy today.
I lived in a Geo Metro for about a month, then it got towed and I was sleeping on the street. Having a car to go into is so far above and beyond have no place at all to go into.
I've done it for over twenty years. It's feasible, but sometimes not ideal.
Americans living in their cars
😱😱😱
are finding refuge in ‘safe parking lots’
🤗🤗🤗
They must be really happy about how amazing the economy is doing.
Safe parking lots are better than living in a van down by the river!
You wish that you could have a spot as nice as by the river.
This has been going on for nearly a decade already. Probably two decades now
~12min video on it from an Australian public broadcast service, from mid-2014:
Families sleepin' in their cars out in the Southwest
No job, no home, no peace, no rest, no rest
Another Snow Crash prediction is coming true.
When I read that book I was a Doordash driver, and it was so funny reading the description of the guy.
Are the highways leading to Alaska above sea level enough for those linear shanty towns to exist?
Public transport advocates in shambles
Are there rules about keeping all your crap within the confines of your vehicle (at night | on weekdays | during street sweeping) at all?
I find the sea of detritus present in these camps - seemingly right after the first resident shows up - is a huge factor in the public seeing them as risky and dangerous.
Every single media story on homeless campers is jammed with shot after lingering shot showing a carpet of junk covering everything; and while it's neat to set up some deck chairs in front of the Winnebago, I'd love to see some process or policy that keeps everyone's shit either bottled up in their hard tents periodically or moved toward the sorter and recycler.
It'd help promote the "campers are just people and not the rubbish of society" idea that we know in our brains but need to also feel in our hearts.
I can imagine being homeless, under the worst stress and despair I've ever experienced, and not having any mental budget left for caring about whether or not my object is on the inside or the outside of my tiny metal box that doesn't let my lie all the way down at night.
Nothing can help promote the idea that the campers are real people if the media doesn't want to show it. Showing sloven bums making a mess of everything around them because they don't want to get a real job is great for ratings. Don't matter if it doesn't represent reality.
It definitely represents reality in a lot of cases.
I’ve been homeless before and never had a trash cloud. Those with trash clouds are still homeless. It’s not a random occurrence.
If half of the homeless/campers are trashy, the media will only show 5 seconds of footage of trash before going back the a bunch of news anchors repeating empty wisdom. They wont show the clean ones and they wont talk about what depression does. The coverage just exists to reassure their viewers have it good.
I’d wait to see if an official process is necessary. People self govern pretty well when they need to. If there’s a problem person other people can deal with them.
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