By design. The homeless are the permanent underclass of capitalism. They need to exist in order to strike fear into the hearts of workers, and they're expanding because they want us a lot more afraid than we already are.
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Exactly - the opulence makes you march toward the opulence, while the homelessness makes you march away from the homelessness. It’s how they motivate us since they aren’t allowed to use whips.
The homeless are the permanent underclass of capitalism.
Don't some countries effectively have zero homelessness, though? I'm thinking of Finland, but I think there were more.
Some capitalist countries have more compassion than others. But when the rubber meets the profits in capitalism the outcome will always be the same. People with less money must suffer for those with more money can have luxury.
Yuck, sorry about that, that's just how it goes with recessions - all's gonna lose wealth, it's just that the poor will lose it much quicker than the rich and it's necessary for the rich to be able to buy off all your property once it's worth nothing
So this is only in reference to people who would basically immediately return to homelessness if only the EHV program is cancelled.
They also want to basically massively defund/shut down Section 8.
So thats more like 9 million people.
(Also I guess somewhat hillariously, that means most slumlords in the US instantly go banrkrupt, rofl, they are dependent on those sweet, succulent government subsidies)
Then there's the entire economy collapsing, and not being able to pay rent being the primary cause of homelessness.
So, while this statement/report is not inaccurate in terms of its limited scope...
Yeah, we're looking at around 20 to 30 million people becoming homeless in the next 12 months, if all the proposed cuts go through, and the economy keeps tanking.
Oh whats that? Strait of Hormuz is closed?
Welp, better figure absurd oil prices, increased logisitics costs at every level, into your forward looking economic projections.
MSFT just laid off 14,000 workers, many of whom go to instagram and hillariously think they will have an easy time finding a roughly equivalent position elsewhere.
FedEx is massively downsizing, consolidating, shuttering logi hubs, seems to have laid off about 100,000 people in the last 6 months... most likely because Amazon stopped contracting with them, though that is a rumor at this point.
Great Depression 2.0 is here, everyone, hold on to those bootstraps rofl.
Yeah, Congress’ll get right on that.
If this Congress acts that would be 100k + criminalisation of homelessness so more slaves bruh