r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Garey_Coleman • 9d ago

Where are the homeless supposed to go?

Cities have been cracking down on homeless people so they can’t have encampments or stay on sidewalks. At the same time usually the shelters are full. So those who are unable to get into a shelter, where are they supposed to go?

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u/IZCannon 9d ago

They're "supposed" to either die or become prison labor until they die

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u/ethosnoctemfavuspax 9d ago

Yes- no one else has brought up that criminalizing homelessness = more prisoners = more legal slave labor

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u/Ok-Chest-7932 9d ago

Prisons are expensive, nobody actually wants homeless in prison except the for profit prisons' investors, who can extract money from the state for containing them. Civilians just want.the homeless to go to other places.

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u/Strength-InThe-Loins 9d ago

And since there are no other places, they go to prison.

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u/Ok-Chest-7932 9d ago

There are plenty of other places, the armchair middle class just don't like them.

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u/etcpt 8d ago

List a few of these "plenty".

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u/FoRiZon3 9d ago

He is already saying prisons are expensive (and overcrowded too). I think you already know what it implies.

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u/jennnfriend 9d ago

And its getting more and more explicit.

"Housing and affordability crisis! Let's make it illegal to be homeless."

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u/FoRiZon3 9d ago

Finally. The real answer. But I hope you don't get banned by the admins lmao.

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u/Jokkitch 9d ago

The true answer

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u/DirtyScrambelly 8d ago

There should just be minimum security prisons specifically for "homeless crime." If you're living on the streets, and have nobody to turn to or nowhere to go believe it or not, jail. Spend a few months sobering up with food and a place to sleep, maybe help getting a job or educational resources. That's the least I would want for myself in such a situation. Better use of tax dollars than bombs in the Middle East too.

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u/maddy_k_allday 9d ago

Per the “Grants Pass” decision of SCOTUS last year, this is totally fine.

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u/BlixxOrchid 9d ago

Prison labor as a solution is society's cruelty in a neat package.

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u/Vertrieben 9d ago edited 9d ago

America is a great factory, those who do not wish to work in the factory, or are simply unable to do so, will be made to work under threat of death. A couple of degrees of separation allow the process to become bureaucratic and mundane. The state won't execute you for being a useless mouth to feed, it will engineer the process to make you die, or at least do nothing to intervene. Even if you see that this is the point of the system, the banality of it will make it palatable to you.

I don't particularly think other countries or economic systems are better, the American/European one is just a bit more subtle, communists would simply execute you directly instead.

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u/FreshlyyCutGrass 8d ago

Given how all other animals and nature treat the weak, is it actually so vile that society naturally does this?

There comes a point, and Im not saying we're there, where there are more people doing nothing to benefit society than those benefiting society. How is that in anyone's best interest?

Are you only a "good person" if you support an endless cycle of dragging down society into a void?

If the population is only increasing, then so to are the useless mouths to feed as you put it. So what's the end game? When is it solved? When everything I earn goes to someone doing nothing? Then what? I get to steal someone else's earnings until they're in the pit with me?