anyway jeff bezos could eradicate homelessness. he could literally give each homeless person 100k and it would only take less than .5% of his entire wealth. what the actual god giving fuck
Why do you think they deserve it
Well shelter is a basic need, and would at the very least allow them a place where they can get back on their feet. Food water and shelter are necessary for a healthy body and psychology. There’s also the fact that they’re people too, and a little help goes a long way in making a decent community. There’s plenty of reasons
Yeah they need stuff, but why does every homeless person deserve 0.5% of someone’s income
You have five hundred apples, and just one day to eat them all.
You pass by a small crowd of hungry children, and decide you’d rather 455 apples go rotten than give them to some snotty brat who isn’t your problem.
It doesn’t matter how hard you’ve worked for your 500 apples, or that you aren’t the parent of any of those kids. in the moment you decide to walk away, it doesn’t matter why they’re hungry, or who owes who what.
You had the opportunity to help people, you had the ability to help people, you had the resources to help people. You had everything you needed to make a small, tiny little difference in someone’s life, and you decided not to.
What are you going to buy in your lifetime that’s worth more to you than your own humanity?
What are you going to buy in your lifetime that’s worth more to you than your own humanity
Reblogging for the very, very important lesson
Sometimes I wish there were a Hell if only for the visuals of a bunch of rich shit heads wandering around on fire asking “Where’s my money?!”
Okay, the thing when you are talking to someone whose reaction to ‘a relatively insignificant fraction of an absurdly wealthy person’s money could help a whole fuckton of people‘ is ‘what’s in it for the rich person?‘, you have to talk to them like you’re trying to explain it to a complete sociopath that was raised by an unspeakably alien being best described as a hybrid of a trust fund and colony of fire ants.
So you have to talk about things like ‘investing in a robust customer base and labour supply‘. I’ll start!
So the thing to bear in mind is that the people on the bottom layer of the economy are not just there for decoration. They participate in the economy, buying the products sold by the massive global corporations owned by God’s chosen people (the rich, obviously), and work in the facilities that make and distribute those products.
And people with no money cannot buy anything. So it’s a good idea to pay the relatively low cost of providing the homeless with a half-decent place to live, a stable food supply, and maybe decent health care if you want the process to work faster and more reliably; because then they can get back to fulfilling their purpose in life, which is obviously to serve as a tiny cog in the vast economic engine that allows the super-rich to collect yachts.
Okay, that’s my bit done. Anyone want to try their hand at explaining how allowing some upward socioeconomic mobility reduces the potential for violent revolution?
ugh 