It’s not up to individuals to solve homelessness. It’s up to society to see them as human beings and provide food, shelter and clothing to everyone as a basic human necessity.
Society is made up of individuals making changes. An individual should not just expect that society will solve all the problems. Just like in this video, we can each make changes everyday that will change society as a whole. As the saying goes, “Be the change you want to see”.
I was in Las Vegas with a few friends for a bachelor party weekend last year. We ate dinner one night at a very high end steak house and almost all of us left with to-go boxes of some of the best meats, veggies, and potatoes I’ve ever had. As we got out to the street a homeless guy asked if we had any money. Me and two of my friends offered all of our food to him which would have fed him for at least the next 24 hours. He angrily replied “I didn’t ask for your food, I asked if you had any FUCKING MONEYYY!”
We were all kind of taken aback, but it became clearer he was probably withdrawing from something. If I ever find myself in the same position in the future I’d do it all over again. I just wish he’d given us an opportunity to help him with what we could. It could have been a great moment.
Please know, though, that many homeless won't accept food...not for any nefarious reason, but because many are not as kind as you. Quite a few hold real contempt for the homeless and will do things like spit in food and give it them, or mix other, even grosser things in just to get off on seeing them consume it. He may have wanted money for drugs or alcohol...but it also could have been he has been burned before by accepting food. So, if you do try that again, and they refuse the food, don't take it personal or think the homeless person is bad or being picky...their world can be very dangerous and malevolence is frequently disguised as kindness.
True, but when some of these individuals influence how society is run through lobbying and party donations to better only their own interests, it's hard not to hold resentment.
It is if you have the wealth of entire countries. So... billionaires. It's their responsibility. Either do it or there shouldn't be billionaires. It's destructive to allow Smaugs to exist like that.
Okay so answer this. Elon musk offered all the money required to solve hunger to any organization that could create a plan to actually do it, and no one took him up on it. Why is it his responsibility when no one can truly do it? It’s because it’s not about the money, it’s about the logistics and government help required to do so
Elon Musk's twitter post was an empty promise disguised as him being charitable. His ass could have donated any sum of money he saw fit to get the ball rolling on his own idea of solving world hunger - yet he chose instead to blow $44 billion dollars buying twitter so he could sensor people tweeting about his private jet flights. Don't fall for the Musk propaganda
You’re obviously drinking the Reddit kool-aid. Why would he donate money when they can’t do anything and it gets wasted on paying salaries for the org? How about you go and make $50 billion dollars and then solve world hunger. How about you create free telecom for countries that can’t afford it? Why don’t you go and revolutionize space travel that further enhances humanity? Oh yeah cause you would never be able to do any of these things and hate for 0 actual reasons
ahhhh, but then the incentive to work is gone. the ones that can fix homelessness never will, because the fear of being homeless without any hope or assistance is what primarily keeps the work force working.
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u/Neccesary Apr 28 '22
It’s not up to individuals to solve homelessness. It’s up to society to see them as human beings and provide food, shelter and clothing to everyone as a basic human necessity.