• Smoogs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    places like that end up full of urine-soaked drug addicts that are high on meth,

    You’re putting all homeless into a box. Not all are homeless because they are addicts. Some are legitimately forgotten by the system and for different reasons lost job/domestic abuse/no fam/disability/health issue/financial issues. And even at that : addiction is also a symptom of a shit society. Not the same issue as what causes other homeless people but there can be more than one problem in a poorly designed system that comes up with the same result of being homeless.

    Society built on capitalistic ideals for more than just survival as a goal has an extremely narrow scope for who it is interested in serving.

    • FederatedSaint@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You’re putting all homeless into a box.

      With the exception of your first sentence (me putting homeless people in a box, which I’m not sure if you’re making a pun or not), all of other the things you said are correct and I agree with. The things you said and the things I said are not mutually exclusive.

      In other words, not all homeless are the same, not all are drug addicts, and society should do better at preventing homelessness, and you might still have a late-night library filled with urine-soaked drug addicts.