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Politicians: “Look how great the economy is doing!”
Job market: doesn't exist
Housing: doesn't exist
Homeless people: everywhere
Why there aren't massive riots, I can't fathom. Civilization is coming apart at the seams and everyone is just…okay with that.
Yeah, that's why I didn't say “protests”. Our forefathers didn't get a 40-hour work week by asking politely.
Even that doesn't really explain it. The streets are crawling with people who were evicted from their homes because their jobs didn't pay enough to cover rent. These people have nothing to lose, and yet they still stay quiet.
Yeah, that's true. Everyone seems to hate the homeless. And they'll probably continue to hate the homeless even as millions of working middle-class people lose their homes as a result of the housing and job crisis. Hell, the newly homeless will probably hate themselves, too.
But I don't understand why. These homeless people didn't choose to jack up their rent and slash their wages; their landlords and employers did. They're victims, not perpetrators. Why would people hate them? Is everybody's brain malfunctioning from microplastic poisoning or something?
So, they remain docile because they cling to a false hope? As far as I can tell, once you're homeless, you're going to stay that way for the rest of your life, no matter what you do, precisely because everyone hates you for being homeless.