This is kinda how I feel when liberals keep arguing for Biden. What I hear them saying is "Vote for Biden because at least he's only making THEIR life miserable... Trump will make MY life miserable! (And I might actually have to start caring!)"
It sucks that people only care about the world's misery when they are personally threatened, but since that seems to be the way it is, maybe letting Trump make everyone miserable will speed things along a bit/get more people to wake up and fight back?
(Mostly playing devil's advocate here... I do think we should be trying to stop Trump... Just wish the DNC was trying too)
10-15% of household in the US are "housing insecure"... There's 127m households... So about 15 million housing insecure families. I think we should go with that. You're probably right that the 600k is street homeless. Many people are "homeless sheltered" meaning they can couch surf, or the state is putting them in a motel, or whatever.
Mental health crisis clinician: dementia is not considered a "mental health" issue
Also, we can't force people to get help just because they are acting wildly "crazy"... Even if it's clearly psychosis, mania, etc. Even if the cops are getting called everyday because the person keeps trashing stores or harassing people. (And, in my state, the cops aren't allowed to arrest them either, BECAUSE the behavior is due to mental illness).
There's some serious issues with our mental health system in the US.
I think an easier solution would be to expand section 8. The government should have tons of housing units built, and then families can "pay them off" with section 8 funding. Right now section 8 money just goes to slumlords. Instead that money could go to the people who actually need it. This would increase housing supply, so prices would come back down, plus allow people to build equity and ownership in their home allowing them to start raising themselves out of poverty.
We could try to math it. Say you invested $1m into the whole thing. Now you're doing great and bringing in $1m/yr, but you're turning people away. In order to make more money you need to hire people. So you hire those 2 you mentioned. You pay them each $100k/yr after benefits and insurance and whatnot. They in turn allow the business to make $1.5m/yr or $300k "extra" after you pay them. You can think of that $300k "extra" as wealth they are creating and then "investing" back into the company. After 4 years they will have "invested" just as much into the company as you ever did, and should probably have an equal say in the decisions, and probably start getting an equal share of the profits.
He should be getting in front of a camera every day and saying "here's what we're trying to do. Here's why it helps you/society. And here are the assholes standing in the way". And if those assholes are Democrats, kick them out of the party and support a better candidate to run against them.
Also the fact they aren't allowed to save up money. I think it's like $2k saved up and they get cut off. That's not even enough for first last and security deposit if they wanted to try and move to a better situation.
Except now there's nukes, end stage capitalism, and climate change... Sure up until like 100 years ago shit sucked hard for just about everyone, but at least there was no way they could literally end all life on earth
In a lot of ways yes this is the best humanity has ever had, but it's also the first time we've had the means to completely eradicate life on earth, and still seen to be barreling towards it. (If you consider the last 80 or so years to be "now")
Yes, this is why... But of course the article doesn't mention that... Which is shocking coming from a media conglomerate owned by a nepo rich white guy /s
Well... A lot of US corporations and businessmen DID help Hitler and the Nazis. It's just that now-a-days those corporations control the government too... So supporting fascists is official gov policy
That's what I thought... But if it's winter in the north then it's summer in the south, so you'd expect them to average in a way that you wouldn't see such stark differences between say January and July. In July it's winter in the south, summer in the north. Intuitively I'd assume they'd average. Temps would still be rising year over year, but you wouldn't see a difference between months. A couple people have answered that it has to do with the earths tilt and the fact that there's more landmass in the north. Seems plausible I guess.
This is kinda how I feel when liberals keep arguing for Biden. What I hear them saying is "Vote for Biden because at least he's only making THEIR life miserable... Trump will make MY life miserable! (And I might actually have to start caring!)"
It sucks that people only care about the world's misery when they are personally threatened, but since that seems to be the way it is, maybe letting Trump make everyone miserable will speed things along a bit/get more people to wake up and fight back?
(Mostly playing devil's advocate here... I do think we should be trying to stop Trump... Just wish the DNC was trying too)