r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Garey_Coleman • 10d 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 10d ago

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

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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 9d 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?