Fact Check

Based on currently available numbers, there are about 31 vacant housing units for every homeless person in the U.S.

  • jorp@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    If you don’t want to participate in a market system why do you not simply die?

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      4 months ago

      Because I dont want to die. If there were no market system how would you get food and survive?

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              4 months ago

              Do you really want government provided housing? The ones I am aware of are places like the projects and were the worst place to live (unless you were a drug dealer).

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                4 months ago

                When imagining that the government do more can you not imagine that it do better?

                Yes Americans have a shit government, they also don’t have a socialist government.

                You’re pointing to the corrupt right wing hellscape you currently live in to deny that another way would be better.

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                  4 months ago

                  What is one definitive thing the government does better? I want a 100% solid thing, and not just a thing that they have a monopoly on.

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                    4 months ago

                    I’m not sure what you mean by “the government” but why not look at the medical system in the US compared to any other similarly developed nation?

                    Is your thesis that profit motive and competition the only way that any good or service should be produced?

                    Would you prefer to pay a toll on every privately owned road you take? How should mercenaries be paid in order to guarantee they won’t mind living in a nuclear sub for months? If the weather service can’t raise enough capital by selling stock how should we collect weather data?