How America moves homeless people around the country

Re:How America moves homeless people around the country by jorblumesea on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:42AM (#38099796)

Pretty much every American solution is to bandaid over or do expensive fixes instead of actually addressing root causes.

See the giant thread around homeschooling we had yesterday.

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Re:How America moves homeless people around the country by rqtwteye on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:56AM (#38100066)

“ expensive fixes instead of actually addressing root causes.”

There is the old quote “the Americans will always do the right thing. Right after they have tried everything else”. It feels like this in a lot of social issues like health care.

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Re:How America moves homeless people around the country by vaidhy on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @12:01PM (#38100173)

I think the underlying problem is that US does not believe in community or society.

Every solution has to be at the level of the individual or the business. This places a lot of constraint over what would be common-sense solutions in rest of the world. There are trade-offs between being part of the society and being alone. If Japan were to be an example of an extreme societal compliance, US is in extreme in "me for myself, screw the rest" approach.

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