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/CA_catwhispurr 9d ago

Finland is way more emphatic and smarter about solving these issues than we are in the US. I wish we were more like Finland.

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u/FAITH2016 9d ago

Finland is also way smaller than the USA. We are talking about a totally different scale here, not that’s not a good idea.

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u/Professional-Tax-615 Down with Gambling ads 8d ago

Exactly. Does Finland have a population of 350 million? I don't think so.. the culture is also different and nobody ever considers that either. Having a strong education system and placing value on intelligence definitely matters.

In the US we place value on superficial nonsense that doesn't help society at all such as the number of followers a person has, or how attractive a person is, or how much money someone really has.

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u/CommissionerOfLunacy 8d ago

The culture is the thing.

The USA is unthinkably rich. No civilisation in history has ever had the command of resources that the US has today. It's not even been close. Because of that, the money is no issue.

No matter what bullshit gets fed into the media, the US could solve homelessness overnight and barely notice the cost. It just doesn't want to.

Because of culture.

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u/Yesthisismyname3 8d ago

This. The vast wealth and power, though, are concentrated in the hands of a small percentage of the population, and it has no incentive to spread it. And the culture says that if you make it, you deserve to keep it.

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u/Professional-Tax-615 Down with Gambling ads 8d ago

Yep, it was very eye opening in 2024, when I realized how many poor people worshiped Elon musk, and automatically thought he was SUPER intelligent just because he was that rich. Very disheartening.

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u/Unresonant 6d ago

 and it has no incentive to spread it

The rich doesn't, but everybody else does.