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They're trying to preserve their dignity.

If someone offered them a rat race job and they had the appropriate education, cultural norms, social skills, and were mentally healthy, they would take it.

People don't choose to be homeless. It may be the best option available to them, but that doens't mean they chose it, it means they have very very few options. Their opportunity is limited by the rich people pushing austerity and gutting basic humanitarian services.

When the poor have no money they can't pay entrepreneurs.

When the super-rich have all the money, the super-rich drive up the cost of living. The middle class then must directly serve the interests of the rich in order to get enough profit to afford the higher cost of living.

It quickly becomes uneconomical to sell anything to poor people.

It's a poverty spiral. Uneducated families just get more uneducated without state intervention. Rich families just get richer, driving up cost of living, cornering markets to destroy the free market, and making the poor families poorer in comparison.

When are we going to wake up from this Randian dystopia we're creating??

Are you aware that we live in a period of peak unemployment?

There are literally millions of people who want jobs. The jobs were all made obsolete by Silicon Valley. The safety net was shredded by Silicon Valley-style neoliberal ethics based on Ayn Rand.

You need a citation to prove that homeless people don't want to be homeless?

Silicon Valley has peaked.

Idealistic, social-conscience-having nerds take note:

This is what happens when you let neoliberalism, Randroidism, and corporate psychopathy infect your tech community.

Technology is supposed to be used to create a Star Trek future. Not to spy on everyone as we make their jobs obsolete, drive up their rental costs, and put them on the street. Then demonstrate zero compassion for the victims that Silicon Valley has created.