• @aworldtowin@lemmy.ml
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      32 years ago

      Honestly the most disturbing aspect of this to me is that a CEO has been seeing homeless masses growing for years now and multiple times worse than Cuba (a blockaded island nation) child malnutrition rates but it’s just NOW that we are in for a rude awakening. I just cannot wrap my mind around the fact that words like this are coming from people with so, so, SO much, pure sociopaths. Even from a practical perspective if I were a CEO I’d be talking to other CEOs like FDR did back in the day. We gotta take some short term losses to keep the peace and stability, at least work with the govt to make a basic housing program and some subsidies for healthy foods. They just saw BLM, imagine that but when a good chunk of the population has missed 2-3 days of meals and barely afford the gas to get to work.

      • @electrodynamica
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        32 years ago

        pure sociopaths

        Absolutely.

        at least work with the govt to make a basic housing program and some subsidies for healthy foods

        The thing is, such programs exist and are currently funded far beyond what would be necessary for them to be effective, it’s just pure graft is gobbling it up.

        For example in Los Angeles, the city with the largest homeless population in the country, spends about 2-3 billion per year to NOT house people. They build these shitty apartments in shitty neighborhoods with the lowest quality possible, to such a degree that they should only rent for about $200-$300 per month with how shitty they are, then on top of that they all have rules like prisons, and on top of that they are only given to a specific class of " working families", i.e. single women 20-35yrs with children under 10yrs, and no one else, certainly not men. And not only that but the cost to the city, per unit, to build this housing is $800k-$1.2 million. They then house people for an average of 9 months or less. Meanwhile, for $800k, they could give a person an entire single family home, standalone house with yard, free and clear for the same amount. That person would be housed for the rest of their life.

        That’s the gap between how much is spent on housing and how much housing is actually given.

        One can only conclude that it’s on purpose. That they want people to be desperate so they have to take shit jobs for shit wages so that some piece of shit can sit on his ass and live a life of extreme waste.

        The only way to fix it is revolution.