I know you already know this, but a surprising number of the homeless did not start out as either mentally ill or drug-addicted but as one of the economically dispossesed. A significant number of them actually have jobs—but the jobs don't pay them enough to afford housing. And it's vastly more complicated than merely, Well, pay them more money to do those jobs!. Increasing the minimum wage is one of the factors that leads to inflation—as we are seeing right now.
I don't think homelessness is a problem with capitalism either. I've seen estimates that as many as 3.5% of Russia's population is homeless. And in Social Democratic countries like Denmark, there's a big homelessness problem—though you seldom see it reported upon. I suspect China doesn't have a homeless problem. But that's probably because they send the homeless to one of their camps. 😊
The homeless are kind of like a caste system that's built into every variation of human culture. Doing away with the idea of inheritance might have an effect on this built-in caste system. But the idea of inheritance seems pretty hard-wired into humans, so it seems unlikely to catch on.
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Date: 2021-10-10 12:00 pm (UTC)I don't think homelessness is a problem with capitalism either. I've seen estimates that as many as 3.5% of Russia's population is homeless. And in Social Democratic countries like Denmark, there's a big homelessness problem—though you seldom see it reported upon. I suspect China doesn't have a homeless problem. But that's probably because they send the homeless to one of their camps. 😊
The homeless are kind of like a caste system that's built into every variation of human culture.
Doing away with the idea of inheritance might have an effect on this built-in caste system. But the idea of inheritance seems pretty hard-wired into humans, so it seems unlikely to catch on.