• Xerxos@lemmy.ml
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    4 minutes ago

    It’s not that expensive if you use them as slave labor and ignore their human rights… Well, still expensive for the tax payers, but who cares for those peasants? /s

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      How about house them in a way that take away their voting rights and use them as cheap labor? Member how prisoners were used to fight the Palisades fires in January?

      Don’t forget the expensive housing is provided by a for-profit prison system. It’s expensive for taxpayers, but someone else is getting rich.

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      5 hours ago

      Providing housing and paying them a shit wage is slave labor too but you get the benefit of them paying their money back into the company store so it’s cheaper.

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    Part of the debacle of giving homeless people free homes, would make everyone else wonder why TF we’re working so hard for 90% of our net income to be sucked away by the housing industry just so we can keep a basic roof over our heads.

    You mean IF I DIDN’T WORK AT ALL, the government would GIVE me a FREE house?? If that were the case, people would decide that laziness is more rewarding than hard honest work.

    This is why the government doesn’t give homes to homeless people. Although I read two days ago that in the USA there is a ratio of 27.4 empty houses per each homeless person.

    But those houses must remain empty in the name of capitalism, for money-havers to do whatever they want with those houses. Anything but using it to house a needy, money-less person.

    The fear of homelessness & starvation & suffering are what motivates everyone to keep working our asses off.

    And after all that, any able-bodied people who still insist on sleeping & shitting on the streets & refusing to contribute to society & the economy, can be scooped up like kitty litter and dumped into for-profit prisons where they’ll be assigned jobs.

    Work & service to others, is the rent we all pay for living on this planet.

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    5 hours ago

    Don’t worry though, totally-not-zionist “lefty” Mandani got elected, he’ll tots take care of the homeless and defo not fall into this pattern!

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          😁 Classic worlder lib

          Marxist: “There’s a fake leftist among us”

          Libs: “HOW DARE YOU! our prized New York Lies told us he’s EXTREMELY left!!! TanKiE TrOlL!”