Re:The cruel Catch-22 of being poor with no ID
by koolba on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:54PM
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If more people were guided towards having proper identification and said ID was easier to attain/renew, then you'd have less of this extreme edge case. Arguably that'd lead to more resources to dedicate to better helping someone in this situation. For every person that is robbed, evicted, or some other misfortune, I'm sure there are plenty more that face no such immediate calamity.
It's like medicine, a ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
The real world is full of a lot more variance than you seem to believe. It is possible to do everything possible within your power correctly and still fall victim to this kind of misfortune.
You're trying to force the world to fit your model. Instead, you need to fix your model to allow for non-100% ID coverage, because reality is always going to have complications, errors, mistakes, and unexpected interactions.