You end up homeless. You have no family, friends, job, in demand job skills, money, credit cards, or car. What would you do to get out of that situation?
Successful crime definitely requires a skillset. Luckily, if you try your hand at it and are without skill our society is happy to bring you to an institution of lower learning!
Befriend an idealised version of yourself and start stealing fat from the backyards of clinics that practice liposuction. Then make soap and “other stuff” with the fat while you build a secret society of homeless people and use it to destroy the very infrastructure of world economy and finance.
Find an abandoned building and make it a home. Steal resources from those that can afford to lose them. Become a professional hobo. Teach others and raise a hobo army called The Hob Nobs. Take over the United Kingdom and rebrand it the United Hob Nobdom. Free healthcare and education for everyone. Eton becomes a school for children with learning disabilities. Prisoners are rehabilitated, royal family and aristocracy are imprisoned. Public policy is based on reasoned argument, scientific principles and evidence based. Drugs are legalised. Conservatism is banned. Money is abandoned. War is illegal. Everyone is happy.
I’d start by checking into a homeless shelter. Then I’d get a job within walking distance. That’s the hard part, the walking distance part.
I was in ALMOST this situation in summer of 2022. I was homeless, and stayed in a shelter, and got myself a job. But I wasn’t penniless. I had maybe a hundred bucks when I started, meaning I could ride the bus to work.
The lower you go, the harder it gets. So my solution would have been impossible without the bus fare.
The shelter had a very early curfew. 6:30 pm or something like that. It would have been impossible to walk to the job simply based on time – about two hours’ walk to and from which wouldn’t leave enough time between wakeup and curfew to get to work, work, and get back.
The lower you go, the harder it gets. That’s one of the most useful things to know about life. If you take a break and you slide back, that break just made your life harder. Below a certain threshold, you can’t climb back up again.
I got out of homelessness, but I had the benefit of mental health, and of being pretty tough already when I became homeless. I guess toughness is an aspect of mental health, so suffice to say I had the key ingredient to get out of that which was mental health. Well, and a functioning philosophy of life.
If you’re in the US, you’re screwed. If you’re in Europe, you can go to the social services office and they’ll set you up in an apartment and get you on a path to a job or education.
I would go the Social Services office and explain my situation. Provided I could prove my identity I would walk out with a couple hundred dollars cash, an address for decent temporary accommodations, and an appointment with a case worker to find a more permanent solution for me.
So many plots for series only make sense in the US. Your answer in comparison to many others here show why.
It’s mostly just sad. I don’t mean it in a condescending way. Reading that people would likely just kill themselves, turn to prostitution, do crime, etc.
I was there last year. I sat in the men’s shelter and job hunted. Then I ran my money out at hotels before moving in with a friend from the men’s shelter.
A lot of those other dudes at the men’s shelter who literally couldn’t do a job were basically fucked though. It’s depressing that I can’t do anything for them and they’re all on timers before they gotta face the weather and evil police.
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