Homelessness Solution

[i/o]

Homelessness is a systemic problem and can only be remedied by a systemic solution. The system I am talking specifically about is our democratic free enterprise system.

Extreme poverty needs to be capped so that one who is impoverished can only feel so with the support of the bare basics of food, shelter, clothing and having our basic needs as human beings met. However, if we impose a cap on the level of poverty one can sink to then we must, likewise, impose a cap on the level of wealth one can attain and possess. Something like the revenue taken from extremely wealthy humans capped at what would leave them with, say, one billion dollars of personal wealth would pay for otherwise homeless impoverished human beings to have a room (like a motel or hotel room) complete with two meals per day. This arrangement would allow people to not fall past this level of "poverty" and be able to manage a job so they can start accumulating their own wealth without burdening the rest of society with petty crimes, unsightly homeless encampments and drug use. This is just a starting framework to show an example.

So, society would just have to tweak our current system with these initial changes. We could tweak further changes to our governance by training AI to be oversight to government management with the aim of reducing corruption so the people's taxes aren't wasted and maintain effective government efficiencies. Other tweaks could include retiring public leaders (politicians) to retire by age 75. Disallow criminals to hold office. This would be a nice start to make democracy great again.

[Bill Ryan]

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• The Capitalism Problem

[shaberon]

Yes, that is the main split in political outlooks.

That's why westerners have generally been livid about Communism. The full-blown form would eliminate class and money. That might be a bit severe to simply do overnight.

And so yes, we have plenty of information about Capitalism, how it is always for someone's benefit, and exists like carrot-on-a-stick so the masses can experience poverty or in fact homelessness. So we are not in favor of it.

Curiously, Nepal proves that Communism is democracy. It is. The ideological conflict is not communism-vs.-democracy or "the free world", but, capitalism vs. anything outside of its narrow view. The Nepalese are, indeed, still trying to rise out of the struggle for subsistence.

On that note, I suggest following the affairs of Nepal and the stateless Kurds. They're actually going through this; they're doing it, while this makes, for me, something like four decades of watching alternative discussions discarded by the US mainstream. Right now we are a step short of a full on Fascist regime unless we can block it out of the Midterms and the new Defense Budget. The way this is wormed in so deeply to everything American means it needs to be worked on by a sledgehammer and an axe, and probably follow the lead of someone who has never even had a state, and quit being so pompous.

I don't have a political answer, but, the basic idea of establishing well-being is important and not done here.

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by i/o (here)
Homelessness is a systemic problem and can only be remedied by a systemic solution. The system I am talking specifically about is our democratic free enterprise system.

Extreme poverty needs to be capped so that one who is impoverished can only feel so with the support of the bare basics of food, shelter, clothing and having our basic needs as human beings met. However, if we impose a cap on the level of poverty one can sink to then we must, likewise, impose a cap on the level of wealth one can attain and possess. Something like the revenue taken from extremely wealthy humans capped at what would leave them with, say, one billion dollars of personal wealth would pay for otherwise homeless impoverished human beings to have a room (like a motel or hotel room) complete with two meals per day. This arrangement would allow people to not fall past this level of "poverty" and be able to manage a job so they can start accumulating their own wealth without burdening the rest of society with petty crimes, unsightly homeless encampments and drug use. This is just a starting framework to show an example.

So, society would just have to tweak our current system with these initial changes. We could tweak further changes to our governance by training AI to be oversight to government management with the aim of reducing corruption so the people's taxes aren't wasted and maintain effective government efficiencies. Other tweaks could include retiring public leaders (politicians) to retire by age 75. Disallow criminals to hold office. This would be a nice start to make democracy great again.

“…make democracy great again” lol. Democracy has never been great. Churchill said it was only the best choice of a bunch of bad systems of government.

“ So, society would just have to tweak our current system…”. Lol, you said the J-word.

I know some homeless people, and imo if they had more money, they would destroy themselves even faster. More booze and other drugs.

Some might be saved, some redeemed, but help can’t fix some things. I think the most we could hope for is to stabilize the earnest folks among the very poor.