Stupidity at its purest form: vote for socialism and leftism, and then when it destroys your city, call it capitalism. You guys come stragiht out of a comic book.
It’s 100% a coincidence that more leftist cities have bigger homelessness problems. You deserve this. You voted for this. Enjoy!
And hey, I don’t give two shits. I’m laughing at you.
What a stupid snivelling American sophomoric bullshit opinion.
The bottom problem is drug addiction, not capitalism.
The top photo isn’t about what it’s like to fucking look at , it’s about what it’s like to live in.
And I can tell you that there is plenty of crime there.
What a stupid sniveling fascist freshman bullshit opinion
Material Conditions lead them to that drug abuse
Capitalism made those material conditions literally unavoidable
Crime is easier to deal with when you live inside of four walls with a roof and a locking door as opposed to a motherfucking tent.
I know you dont give a fuck, but your arguments are DUMBBB. Are you being purposely disingenuous or are you just stupid?
Material Conditions lead them to that drug abuse
This is how I know you have exactly zero life experience, and clearly never given the topic more than a moments thought.
You call me dumb - but are you seriously saying that the only reason people become substance abusers is because of poverty?
Think about that for just thirty seconds.
I hate how when there is any picture of Soviet blocks it’s always shot in autumn or winter when it’s overcast. I live in an ex Soviet country and when these bad boys are maintained they can outperform new apartments, be it in functionality, amenities or price.
always shot in autumn or winter when it’s overcast.
To me this adds a lot to the charm. I’d love to live there (at least for some time)!
As someone who lives in a former communist country, I can tell you that “commie blocks” most definitely don’t fix homelessness.
As someone who’s from a former Communist country, the downfall of communism was met with a dramatic rise in homelessness.
But you probably shouldn’t trust a random person on lemmy saying “as someone from Communist country”, this info easily verifiable with a web search.
Here’s the first link I get searching “homelessness after communism”:
https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/ca29.1.03/277
Because the commies put all homeless people into jails you dunce!
Not jail, but worse
This more because of the local planning in a lot of western countries. Authoritarian countries force housing through much easier
China has 300m homeless people though?
Depending on how one defines homelessness, China has either a very tiny homeless population or an extremely large one. Compared to other countries, there very few vagrants: people living on the streets of China’s cities without means of support. But if one counts the people who migrated to cities without a legal permit (hukou), work as day laborers without job security or a company dormitory, and live in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions on the edge of cities, there are nearly 300 million homeless
The source of your source
The world will never recover until poverty is seen not as a character flaw, but as a failure of society itself to provide for the most vulnerable.
I’d gladly live in one of those apartments in the first picture if it meant that everyone could have a home
I don’t think anybody thinks that.
Not explicitly, maybe, but implicitly, absolutely, and in multiple ways:
- Supporting the system that creates one over the other
- Having ‘bootstrap’ attitudes about the poor
- Worrying about property value over utilization
- Complaining about the homeless rather than the lack of action on housing
- Voting against people who run on public housing
In so, so many ways, people say they prefer the latter over the former. Usually just with the caveat that the homeless people also be invisible.
Don’t worry, they’ve outlawed homelessness. Problem solved!
Literally though. And there’s a whole practice of hostile architecture that makes it harder and more uncomfortable to be homeless.
The point of hostile architecture isn’t to solve homelessness, just to send them to the next block/town over (not saying you don’t understand that, just pointing it out).
I wonder if hostile architecture also kills people. Increasing exposure to cold and reducing opportunities to rest doesn’t seem good for your chances for survival. I guess that would solve homelessness, but in the worst most morbid way possible.
You’re absolutely right in your suspicion. Like so many “let’s punish the poor and vulnerable so they’ll stop being poor and vulnerable” policies that people think are just a “righteous” inconvenience, hostile architecture DOES kill people.
It’s social murder just so the more fortunate don’t have to look at the consequences of an unjust system.
Capitalism has you thinking that these are our only options
