A number of homeless are indeed are victims of our terrible socio-economic system. However I have heard many homeless outreach workers say the same thing “The ones who stay homeless are the ones who stay addicted”. Addiction is a serious issue and the challenge of beating it is nothing we should dismiss, however it is clear some people end up homeless due to drugs and stay homeless due to a refusal to get clean. When your life is centered around just getting high, you won’t care much about anything else. All the horrors of living on the street disappear once you get your fix, and some people are okay living like that.
I guess I’m writing all this to say that homelessness is a very complex and nuanced issue. They aren’t all victims, they aren’t all criminals, they aren’t all mentally ill, they aren’t all addicts, and for some its the only life they’ve ever known.
This is why the conversation around homelessness is so difficult. People just latch onto their idea of what being homeless is then build their argument from there, dismissing the remaining context of the concept.
I highly suggest doing homeless outreach to broaden your perspective on the matter (look up a local Food Not Bombs group if you live in a city!). If that isn’t something you’d like to do, there are plenty of videos on youtube that give you more insight into the homelessness experience. Obviously watch out for the videos that treat living on the streets as a spectacle or oddity, I absolutely hate these videos because they serve to shock and entertain, not educate.
That was the biggest mindblow for me, and I really appreciate that the first biblical scholars didn’t try to bury the truth when archaeology conflicted with the bible.
I’m not like a super political person, and from my understanding its the idea that if I make a $10 thing for the bossman, but only get $1 that is wage theft?...
The thing I’m now realizing is that I too have been a victim of wage theft, but didn’t suspect anything under the guise of “the system is good numbers always go up YEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWW”
Cheers to my sinking mental health yet again, I think I’ll name her the titanic fucking capitalist icebergs everywhere.
That is wild, so many salary jobs act like you should work more than 40 hours. I even had a manager that said upper level employees should be willing to work more than 40 hours per week. What a cock wart.
Interesting, interesting, I appreciate the perspective that wage theft can be committed by employees, although I’d be comfortable committing wage theft against my company, if I was paid hourly, they fucking suck.
This is a much more legalese take, I feel like some folks would disagree in terms of the spirit of wage theft vs the letter of the concept. I like it though, I appreciate it, I appreciate you.
Follow up question, could the same metrics be captured without a network connection? An alternative might not be as user friendly as an IoT device, but for the last what decade? It seems like investment in IoT is investment in security vulnerabilities.
Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds (www.cbsnews.com)
A growing number of Americans are ending up homeless as soaring rents in recent years squeeze their budgets....
SATAN'S GUIDE TO THE BIBLE (www.youtube.com)
What is wage theft exactly?
I’m not like a super political person, and from my understanding its the idea that if I make a $10 thing for the bossman, but only get $1 that is wage theft?...
Margot Robbie Is Taking a Break From Acting After Barbie in Case People Are Sick of Her (www.ign.com)
Can't we just start calling it "Formerly Twitter" instead?
Pretty much the title. I think you all know what I’m talking about.
Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her (ody.sh)
I can’t give more approval for this woman, she handled everything so well....
I mean Star Trek is not much better (lemmy.world)
[Debt: The First 5000 Years](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years) (lemmy.world)
Someone has been appointed as princess (lemmy.world)
Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware (arstechnica.com)
C.B.T. (lemmy.zip)