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Re:Rising rent, not poverty, is the real driver of homelessness by ejb999 on Friday January 06, 2023 @05:10PM (#34281992)
>>Those are great opportunities to teach your children about the consequences of an apathetic voting base

I think you would be much better off using those opportunities to teach your kids to stay away from drugs and alcohol, and to study hard and work hard - so they don't end up like that.

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Re:Rising rent, not poverty, is the real driver of homelessness by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Saturday January 07, 2023 @09:08PM (#34295251)
Plenty of people have worked excruciatingly hard and never done drugs but wound up homeless anyways. Reducing homelessness to laziness and drug addiction is a good indicator that you aren’t familiar with the the literature around homelessness and might have some prejudices against homeless presenting people.

Tangentially, I think it’s much better to use people like Elon musk, or Donald trump, or Sam bank man fried, jk Rowling, etc as examples of who not to become. Bad luck can befall anyone whereas these people woke up and chose violence, repeatedly.

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