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Re:11M households could be evicted over the next four months by DoreenMichele on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:31AM (#23973269)
Feel free to come up with better answers and outshine me and make me look like a fool. I will be happy to sit back and clap and say attaboy/girl!

In the meantime, I will continue to offer the spoonful of assistance I'm capable of offering while much of HN seems to pass the popcorn and watch the world burning like it's entertainment.

Re:11M households could be evicted over the next four months by robertlagrant on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @05:11AM (#23973844)
Yeah it's rather easier to say (with no evidence) "yes but that doesn't help 100 % of people" than to do something.

Well done for doing something, DoreenMichele.

Re:11M households could be evicted over the next four months by newbie789 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:55PM (#23982377)
Are you implying that I've somehow missed evidence that creating some jobs will keep millions of people from becoming homeless in the coming week and my post was simply to be a wet blanket?

As I said repeatedly in my post this is a good idea and I applaud her efforts. My point was (I'm sorry that this isn't clear) that the required changes need to be at a much larger scale than individuals creating jobs (unless it's organized at a... much larger scale).

While I am absolutely delighted to watch people do what they can, and encourage it wholeheartedly, I'm not all-in on the whole "job creators" idea as a panacea. Infact, if a person chooses to do ONLY the "job creation" thing and declines trying to address systemic issues, I'd also in some cases view them as eating popcorn while they watch the world burn with the added activity of patting themselves on the back.

If you were offended by my post, I apologize.