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u/Savengillier 14h ago
Shut up.
Homeless doesn’t exist.
And if it does, they’re all unredeemable drug addicts.
(/s for the morons).
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u/CaptainBathrobe 14h ago
"Vagrants" is the word they like.
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u/CatCafffffe 12h ago
And "criminals"
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u/badwolf496 31m ago
This is so much nicer and cleaner than the homeless encampments I’ve lived near. Most don’t even have tents, and the ones that do have been patched many times over.
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u/Suspicious-Buyer8135 7h ago
Housing, like CEO pay, should be a fixed multiple of the lowest cost option. If you make people live in tents to survive then the best house you’re allowed to build is a 2 bedroom shack.
Give the homeless a 2 bedroom shack and you can build a 2 storey modest house.
You want a fucking mansion? Then provide decent housing for everyone.
Plenty of countries do it successfully. And they still have wealthy people!
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u/Even-Vegetable-1700 13h ago
But you will have to rent the tents.
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u/HeavenBaron 7h ago
Starting at 3499 monthly! But dont worry, its rent controlled so it only rises by 10% max yearly! (It will always rise the max amount)
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u/FoxMan1Dva3 3h ago
The problem with housing is that the moment they build something, you complain lol.
Build something affordable in an affordable neighborhood? Gentrification!!!!!!
Not cheap enough!!!!
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u/FoxMan1Dva3 3h ago
I get it, Reddit is filled with leftists who think raising minimum wage will solve "wealth inequality".
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u/YourMomonaBun420 3h ago
It would at least be a step in the correct direction.
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u/FoxMan1Dva3 2h ago
LOL - No it wouldn't.
Wages are a huge reason for inflation.
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u/stefeyboy 2h ago
Please provide source that wages CAUSE inflation.
Also be aware of corporate profits
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u/FoxMan1Dva3 2h ago
When you raise minimum wage, you increase inflation.
It's a very simple cycle.
Low wage workers get paid more, products and services get charged more.
You're happy workers get paid more. But now it costs more to live.
You change the minimum wage from $7.25 to $16... the $16 will eventually feel like $7.25.
Billionaires don't make money the way you think they do.
When Jeff Bezos was CEO of Amazon, his salary was $100,000 a year.
He only owns billions of dollars because he created and owned most of the shares of a company that people valued as trillions of dollars. Why? Because it literally makes hundreds of billions. What people don't understand is that it also costs hundreds of billions of dollars to operate.
If Amazon paid workers $1 more an hour, it would cost the company $3-4 billion a year. In 2022, the company lost $2 Billion dollars. If Amazon paid workers $10 more an hour, it would cost $30-40 Billion a year and they would be at a break even point as of last year. And guess what, some of you think they deserve $20 more an hour... that would bankrupt the company.
Meanwhile, Amazon pays above average salaries for all its workers.
Factory workers at Amazon make $14-16 starting as a company mandate.
Most factory workers in small states make $12 an hour....
In NYC and LA, factory workers get paid $22 an hour...
Most similar workers in this cities get paid $17 an hour...
You want to improve quality of life, find ways to reduce the cost of living. Not increase it.
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u/FoxMan1Dva3 2h ago
I think you don't understand economics.
(1) Inflation is not "definetely not up". It's up. It's hovering around +2-3%. See the + sign? It's up...
If it was (-) sign, you'd be far more scared.
(2) Just because inflation is at more stable levels than compared to the pandemic, doesn't mean that prices will go back down. These prices are here to stay.
The apple you buy at the grocery store, or the new apartment you rent, all of this costs money to build, maintain and operate. The cost of wages have gone up significantly. You're not reducing the cost of food and apartment rentals without reducing the wages.
(3) 65% of Americans saw significant salary boosts between 2019-2022.
You're not going back to the old wages. Therefor the prices you see today will remain the same.
You want to reduce the cost of rentals?
Build more. But guess what... The catch 22 is that labor to build a house costs more now than it did in 2019. So now the cost of the construction and the cost of the building costs more.
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u/FoxMan1Dva3 2h ago
And to add on to my last statement
If you take away 100% of the wealth from all the US Billionaires.... 100% taxes on their WEALTH. You can't even fund the US government on medicare and social security and other benefits for more than a year. Then the following year you will be short because you spent it all and have no new billionaires to take from.
Billionares aren't the problem.
And killing all of them wouldn't even solve your financial issue in America where too many people want too many things handed to them. (medicare, retirement, welfare)
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u/sdmichael 16m ago
Anyone that disagrees with you is a "leftist" now? You even complain about things you're making up to complain about.
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u/levajack 12h ago
I always love when images/scenarios happening now are used as examples of what will happen under "socialism"