r/raleigh • u/Unusual-Horse-7709 • 28d ago

Question/Recommendation Anyone else live very close to a large homeless camp?

I hope this post doesn't get too controversial, but it's getting to a point where I no longer want to work in my garden when I'm home alone. More people have been approaching our home lately. Me, my partner, and even his mom on separate occasions have been asked for things. We've had multiple things stolen, mostly small, but with kids things get left outside.

Do you have a homeless camp within a block or two of your home, and if so, how do you deal with it?

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u/iodinevanadiumey 27d ago

Rampant billionaires problem you mean

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u/buckeye25osu 27d ago

Americans aren't homeless because of billionaires. They are overwhelmingly homeless due to crack, fentanyl, and other drugs, along with poor education rates.

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u/iodinevanadiumey 26d ago

They are overwhelming homeless because of constantly increasing cost of living with stagnant wages. Which is a result of billionaires. You’re on Reddit so clearly you have access to the internet, education yourself.

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u/buckeye25osu 25d ago

Yes affordable housing is also a major factor and should have included it with drugs and education (which leads to poverty and greater mental health problems). But to blame billionaires is way too simple. Without billionaires perhaps we'd have more affordable housing but maybe not. I'm not licking boots for billionaires either, just saying there are a whole lot of other reasons that are higher on the list.

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u/iodinevanadiumey 24d ago

I mean if we didn’t have billionaires that would be billions of dollars spread out between more people so I feel like that’s a pretty simple solution towards homelessness, hunger, etc. Better distribution of wealth is a main and major issue in the US especially.

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u/Chrypt22 27d ago

There are only 800 Billionaires in the US. And for most of them it’s just a valuation. Meaning that their wealth is simply a stake in other companies which they can’t touch. Don’t get me wrong, they still have a lot of money in the bank but it’s not as much as you think it is.

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u/iodinevanadiumey 26d ago

It’s more than they could ever need. I don’t care whether their wealth is in stocks, business ventures, or pure hard cash. No one needs that much money. 800 billionaires, 600,000+ people sleeping on the streets every night. Biggest example of how the US country and economy is a failure.

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u/PrunyPants 26d ago

How much money should they be allowed to have, according to you?

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u/iodinevanadiumey 26d ago

You think any one person should have more or even close to a billion dollars?

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u/Chrypt22 18d ago

They don't have a billion dollars. It's a valuation. Take an upper middle class family... Most of them are millionaires - but that doesn't mean it's liquid money. That money is their house, valuables, investments, and a business if they own one. They may have only have 10 - 20k or less of actual cash on hand.

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u/iodinevanadiumey 17d ago

Why are you defending billionaires? You are and always will be closer to homelessness than you will be to Jeff Bezos’ wealth so I’m not sure why you’re fighting for people like him? They don’t care if you live or die? No one’s net worth should be anywhere close to a billion dollars is that better for you? I don’t care whether their money is in houses, investments, cold hard cash, or pigeon feathers. They shouldn’t have that much of it. If a hypothetical upper middle class family has a net worth of one million, a billionaire is worth 1,000 hypothetical upper middle class families. And that’s only if they’re worth exactly one billion. People like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are worth 200,000+ and 400,000+ hypothetical middle class families. A medical emergency would bankrupt majority of Americans, billionaires wouldn’t even notice the money gone from their account. How do you still not see the issue with that?

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u/Chrypt22 14d ago

Again, it's a valuation of investment. Have you ever watched shark tank? Normal people receiving investment from wealthy people for a stake in their company. If you eliminate the ability to become wealthy you're destroying a significant amount of businesses and individual incentive.

If you want to say we should take capital gains more, or encourage companies of a certain size to give more stake in the companies people work for then I might agree with some of those points.

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u/Myslinky 15d ago edited 15d ago

As much per year as another person can earn working minimum wage for 40 years, 5 days a week, 8 hours a day.

If you think someone needs more then we should increase minimum wage.

Keep simping for the oligarchy princess 🤡