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1. mxkopy+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-05-23 18:17:40
> You can look at any metric of disease, rates of violent crime victimization, life expectancy, and on and on and see that just being homeless makes you life demonstrably far worse than any alternative. Your position is totally divorced from data and clearly from any person insight.

Lmao there you go again. You can look at at anywhere but outside. You can cite anything but experience. Yes, my position is divorced from data, because fuck the data, it's not telling the whole story. I find it interesting for example that you're on the hype train when it comes to median income and whatever, but mentions of obesity and suicide rates are doomerism. You literally choose which statistics to interpret.

Here's what's happening. You think that once you're not homeless, you're suddenly not dealing with the same issues that you once were. If you stop and think about what these issues are, it's pretty clear that low SES people and homeless people share a lot in common. Here they are:

Mental health

Physical health

Physical safety (lesser)

Food security (lesser)

General unpleasantness (potentially lesser)

Spiritual health (potentially greater)

It's not crazy to think - again, unless you've made it and the only contact you have with the trenches is through metrics - that people with shitty jobs can have shitty lives. And personally, I'm not interested in quantifying how much shittier because that's inhumane. If someone is living a shit life, you have no right to tell them they're living better than someone else and wave their problems away while you have none. It's basic empathy really.

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2. ch4s3+Lc[view] [source] 2023-05-23 19:14:16
>>mxkopy+(OP)
I am telling you I have literally known people who were in and out of homelessness and experimentally they were much better off when they had stable housing. I have worked dead end jobs and been on Medicaid, while also knowing people who were in precarious housing situations. Your position is ridiculous, discovered from data, and removed from any real world experience. Any social worker could tell you that you're totally full of shit, as could anyone who has ever been homeless.
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