3rd world countries are the shitholes they are because 3rd world people live there.
This! This is also why throwing money at homelessness doesn't solve it.
I tell people that you can round up all the homeless people in a major city, house them in luxury high-rise apartments where food is delivered to them, laundry is done for them, and they have all the movies, video games, and other entertainment they could want for free, and the place look like something out of Mad Max within a week. It's not an affluence problem, it's a people problem.
America was carved out of the wilderness with handmade tools and has a climate much more harsh than these tropical shit holes. Whatever misfortune they may have isn't any worse than the challenges that Western nations had and overcame. The reason they lag so far behind is because the people there are lesser.
It is a callous but true statement that, if you kill off all non-successful humans in a city every winter just from the cold, there's not going to be many non-successful humans in that city.
We want to take care of our disadvantaged and the least of us. But that simple statement of fact stands: Homeless who are homeless for more than a year are a finite population that grows fairly slowly over time, and contracts pretty much only with their deaths. Very few homeless who've been unable to climb back after a year, overall, climb back ever again. Some do, but statistically negligible.
Every effort to long-term "sustain" the homeless, is analogous to an effort to increase the overall numbers of homeless. It would benefit "the homeless" as a class more to spend money on cops to kill drug traffickers, than to overnight-house the homeless, because it will stop future homeless from existing in the first place.
This! This is also why throwing money at homelessness doesn't solve it.
I tell people that you can round up all the homeless people in a major city, house them in luxury high-rise apartments where food is delivered to them, laundry is done for them, and they have all the movies, video games, and other entertainment they could want for free, and the place look like something out of Mad Max within a week. It's not an affluence problem, it's a people problem.
America was carved out of the wilderness with handmade tools and has a climate much more harsh than these tropical shit holes. Whatever misfortune they may have isn't any worse than the challenges that Western nations had and overcame. The reason they lag so far behind is because the people there are lesser.
It is a callous but true statement that, if you kill off all non-successful humans in a city every winter just from the cold, there's not going to be many non-successful humans in that city.
We want to take care of our disadvantaged and the least of us. But that simple statement of fact stands: Homeless who are homeless for more than a year are a finite population that grows fairly slowly over time, and contracts pretty much only with their deaths. Very few homeless who've been unable to climb back after a year, overall, climb back ever again. Some do, but statistically negligible.
Every effort to long-term "sustain" the homeless, is analogous to an effort to increase the overall numbers of homeless. It would benefit "the homeless" as a class more to spend money on cops to kill drug traffickers, than to overnight-house the homeless, because it will stop future homeless from existing in the first place.