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  • vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    4 days ago

    If you house the homeless they are no longer homeless so you can’t house them so they become homeless and then you need to house them and then they are no longer homeless so you can’t house them and then they become….

    Sorry, got in a little loop there. Point being, taking care of people is ok. That’s what money is for. Even after the acute need has passed.












  • Honestly, I consider myself a social democrat, and that’s a fair criticism of social democratic politics.

    You can mitigate the worst excesses of capitalism, but only at the price of constant vigilance. And if you do a good job, people don’t think you are doing much of anything, and hound you about the “government inefficiency”, the “oppressive regulatory pressure” and the “poor business climate”. You are basically running PR for capitalism.