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Roof, food, water and access to medical help should still be universal.
originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: ketsuko
Universal means it's there for everybody. What standard you can afford is up to you, I'm not talking about luxuary accommodation. Just a space big enough for a bed and a closet where you can lock the door and be warm.
Food that gets thrown away every day but that's still technically good can be redistributed.
Stuff that gets now shredded because people ordered it online and send it back can be redistributed.
Closing the gap between income in every industry. If you're making 60 000 per month your lowest earner has to make 5%. Like a relative minimum wage.
I mean how we do things now is unsustainable anyways. So why not rethink the whole thing?
originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: TrollMagnet
I made a personal experiment living with homeless people in London for almost a month.
So I do know what I am talking about. Maybe it's more harmless than Skid Row but people are kind of the same everywhere.
Drug abuse is more often than not an escape a few moments to feel good at the beginning and a few moments to feel kind of normal later on.
That's a symptom not the cause.
Also free market is a myth, allegedly thanks to capitalism there should be no poverty, because of the trickle down effect, alas that's not happening, because with no regulation people start hoarding.
For it to work there must be regulations to keep the money moving.
I sincerely doubt that suddenly everybody will stop striving for a better living quality, just because *Basic survival is guaranteed, that's the core of being human. Without fear of survival I would guess that in fact more people would dare to start fun little companies.
But we definitely can do better than we do now.
*I honestly doubt that getting 86sqf and food that's otherwise trash would be an incentive to abandon your suburbia dream house and Sushi dinner, so your argument is silly anyways.
But it would be huge for those who need it.
Thats is NOT what the free market means. You need to educate yourself. The problem here is your perception and poor understanding of the systems we live in.
People who take drugs for that harmless "escape" you claim to know so much about rob, lie, and steal to support those habits. Thats why no one who actually know them or grew up with them trusts them. Thats why most of them live on the street and were abandoned by their families.