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[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 60 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Homeless people should NOT exist in a world with trillionaires. Fuck the rich so hard.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Here’s a reminder that there are nearly 14,000,000 vacant houses in America, and less than 650,000 homeless people. The math comes out to ~22 vacant houses for every single homeless person. I’ll give you one guess which income bracket owns the vast majority of those vacant houses…

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I’ll give you one guess which income bracket owns the vast majority of those vacant houses…

it's poor people, right? right?

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Well duh, they're on the street because they're experiencing decision paralysis on what house to live in that day.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Phrase that differently or the wealthy will get the wrong idea.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

That wasn't what I...

You know what, that works too.

[–] theolodis@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago

I think this might have been about the "should not exist" party which could also mean "kill them all", in the billionaire's mind.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Alright, so let's kill 'em!

(Ambiguity is on purpose.)

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

They know goddamn well a big contingent is willing to if they had the opportunity, so they've gone to great lengths to avoid such possibilities.

This should intrigue people who like a challenge idk

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Totally agree. What the fuck is a society that just cares about money and not people. Its not worth surviving.

The sad thing is that it has been like this for so damn long it isn't funny. And the people who like it this way will never go away.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 37 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's "expensive" in the "right" way. The costs are paid by taxes, which are largely supplied by the 99%. The revenue, by contrast, is privatized, going to corporations owned by the 1%.

So it's only "expensive" for the masses, which lawmakers don't care about.

[–] Flickerby@lemmy.zip 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Not to mention the slave labor they gain out of it.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago

I was lumping that into "revenue"

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

👆 👆 These two guys/girls/dudes/men/women get it.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

Just another way to extract surplus created by the 99%.

[–] Ava@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 6 days ago

Well, there WAS that thing a couple of months ago where Kilmeade said the quiet part out loud, suggesting we should execute them.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It's an investment by the megacorps (with gov monies) into keeping the plebs in check, to not get any ideas around equity, social reform, tax increases, megacorp regulation (consumer prices/margins cap), higher wages, etc.

It's super effective.

The same infrastructure can also be recycled in event of a full-on fascist gov.

[–] seejur@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Not only that. The housing is then maintained by taxpayers, who are not the rich strata. So it's another way to funnel money from the poor/middle class to the corporation owned by the rich.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

no, we should arm the homeless

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago

How else do we keep cops from fucking with them?

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

This is how people start believing the free market makes it moral for poor people to just die instead

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

If these people were at all reasonable or giving a shit about anybody else, they wouldn't be ayncaps.

[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago

We? How about "we" remove the rich, so that homelessness is only a frie and true choice if you want to be traveling?

The only people who'd like there to be homeless people are the rich and powerful.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago
[–] boogiebored@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

It isn't even really about the privatization. They just want the ability to game the investment scam system.

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