Correction: The U.S. is actually the richest tiny group of individuals on Earth.

@piotrd.4850

4 ай бұрын

Not exactly. Yeah, distribution of wealth is skewed, but 1. stock rich isn't always rich 2. USA still has terrific geography, vast natural resources, still some industry left and political structure that, unlike in EU, does not allow one offical screw things up too badly.

@daviddobarganes9115

4 ай бұрын

It's three investment firms in a trenchcoat

@DubboU

4 ай бұрын

⁠@@piotrd.4850lol if you haven’t been paying attention, yeah, no single person can screw things up too badly, it takes the whole US government to screw things up this bad, and it’s been bad for years.

@ogre706

4 ай бұрын

@@piotrd.4850 I agree that money/stocks isn't the only measure of wealth, but it's kinda the standard measure used when discussing wealth distribution and the resulting problems of homelessness.

@hoopnight4758

4 ай бұрын

Not anymore, China now has more billionaires than the US.

JT in 2020 "hey guys, check out this other thing: Socialism. Maybe its good actually." JT in 2024 "I'm done f*ing around. There is one way forward where we don't all die on a burning planet."

@infrofl6557

4 ай бұрын

He's found the way

@Oul362

4 ай бұрын

Yep

@Svafne

4 ай бұрын

I actually live in a free country so I can say it: Revolt!

@Goran1138

4 ай бұрын

It is classic way to change your views from social-democracy to radical revolution communism. From start you want the best way without blood and with agreement of the all classes about improvement of everyone life. But later you will understand, that ruling class will never share any part of their wealth without REAL threat to it.

@mrbanana6464

4 ай бұрын

@@MANAinitiative He has the Deprogram and First Thought as a political outlet. Second thought is more of an introductory channel to socialism for an American audience.

Literal hermit crabs have this issue figured out. They'll gather together and trade shells to make sure every crab has one the right size once the largest gets too big.

@xanderjames8682

4 ай бұрын

Thats so cool😮 its like timeshare🤣

@Queen_of_Coffee

4 ай бұрын

We need to fix this, not just because its the right thing to do, but also so that we as a species can say that we are not being outdone by creatures we eat for dinner.

@scowlistic

4 ай бұрын

🤔 intriguing.

@ernie39

4 ай бұрын

exactly!! let us learn from hermitcrabs, they have so much to teach us! equitable housing, walking sideways, etc (being lighthearted but I very much agree)

@energeticstunts993

4 ай бұрын

and following that trend, even the Hermit Kingdom aka the DPRK has virutally no honeless people because hey! Their society isn't a purely profit based system and even if we can criticize the human rights abuse they commit sometimes, the DPRK is still a project that socialists like us should carefully watch and celebrate its victories of.

Remember guys, theres no such thing as infinite growth on a finite planet.

@Dajenken

4 ай бұрын

I heard this somewhere before recently, and very right.

@bbblackwell

4 ай бұрын

Be careful with that idea. It's not infinite growth that's the problem; it's the methods and goals of that growth that set the parameters. Man is a creative being, and it's a universe without practical end, but we have to grow morally and sustainably, in accordance with the natural laws of this realm.

@kerwinbrown4180

4 ай бұрын

The planet is still empty as is the solar system and beyond.

@Leto85

4 ай бұрын

I'm confident than when Earth becomes uninhabitable the rich will find a better way of living and Earth will be known as the dump-planet for the poor and unfortunate who can't afford a rocket.

@lame6810

4 ай бұрын

Yes there is. Make more with less resources.

There are over 660,000 AirBnbs too.. Housing being a commodity is a real problem.

@TheZombieButler

4 ай бұрын

​@Nelumbo_lutea or long term rent them.

@ayoutubechannelname

4 ай бұрын

We should have a system like carbon credits, but for rent payments rather than CO2 emissions. Instead of paying rent to the landlord, a person can be issued housing credits up to a maximum as defined by a percentage of their income. The money they pay goes into a renter’s payment pool. To access the funds in that pool, the landlord would obtain these credits by allowing the renter to mover in. This allows the grace period for non-payment to be regulated by an entity independent of the landlord. It functions as an insurance helping to stabilize income for landlords, which reduces risks and consequently the equilibrium rate of profit. It also grants the power of the independent entity to withhold funds from the landlord in case violation of contracts. It can also take the power of eviction away from the landlord and provide a court where the case for evicting a tenant is determined by a judge and jury which can consider other factors besides non-payment of rent.

@ayoutubechannelname

4 ай бұрын

@Nelumbo_lutea Sure, but we will still need someway to sort properties from least expensive to most expensive. There should be a distribution of prices that reflect the distribution of incomes, rather than basing the prices on the “value” of each property. See the article “First-Time Buyer Lorenz Curves” for an excellent and very enlightening article which compares the percentile of home values against the percentiles of first-time homebuyers which can afford them. It’s very crucial if we want make housing available to all.

@TheZombieButler

4 ай бұрын

@@ayoutubechannelname I like that idea as long as the independent entity is not a bank. I foresee the banks just claiming that money and investing it ( read steal it).

@leclark5067

4 ай бұрын

"ItS a GoOd InVeStMeNt" Never heard that before 2008 in relation to a business structure

as great philosophers SOAD said, they're trying to build a prison for you and me to live in

@awonisgreat9708

4 ай бұрын

ANOTHER PRISON SYSTEM ANOTHER PRISON SYSTEM ANOTHER PRISON SYSTEM FOR YOU AND ME

@CraigKeidel

4 ай бұрын

And as their contemporary thinkers RATM once bemused, hungry people don't stay hungry for long; they get hope from the fire and smoke as they reach for the dawn

@hugh_jasso

4 ай бұрын

"Why don't they just fight the war!? Why do they always send the poor!?"

@valerietaylor9615

4 ай бұрын

„Are there no prisons?“ „ Plenty of prisons.“ From „A Christmas Carol“, by Charles Dickens

@ennuiblue4295

4 ай бұрын

also, 'building the wall' isn't always to keep people out, but to keep people *IN* 😯

Capitalism may be immoral or amoral, but it's also _unscientific_ & unsustainable. Socialism is scientifically sound & logical.

@someonenotnoone

4 ай бұрын

As for being unsustainable, homesteading specifically precludes itself. Locke himself said it was justifiable so long as there was good and common enough for all. The most prominent libertarian thinkers acknowledge that these ideas cease to be justifiable in "lifeboat" situations. Being on a finite planet means the logical conclusion of homesteading is to create a lifeboat situation, to no longer permit homesteading either by dismissing the previous claims as unjust, or stating that no future claims can be just. Either way homesteading precludes itself. This idea that we can take from nature without taking from each other is flawed. We share this planet. When we take for ourselves we take from others. The first person who builds a warp drive to meaningfully invalidate this point has my great appreciation.

@Mr.MasterOfTheMonsters

4 ай бұрын

Science, environmentalism, humanism and socialism go hand to hand. It's all about optimizing to get the most out of as little as possible, with the majority as priority. Science: A few people put time and effort to save T&E for everyone. Env: Our species needs to preserve the environment for all the other species. Humanism: Minimize suffering for most at the cost of the enjoyment of some. Socialism: Same as humanism, but applied to resource distribution. And I'll die on the hill that science without the other 3 is not science. More like simple product development.

@TheJester-mc1iq

4 ай бұрын

You're right, but realistically, no one is going to be able to convince the traditionally conservative proletarian factions, that Socialism is a viable alternative to Capitalism. & Reformism is alienating the average worker from revolutionary ideals, further killing the possibility of a genuine Socialist Revolution, unfortunately. 😭

@edhiepitz

4 ай бұрын

Capitalism are actually sustainable, but in a way that extremely bizarre

@Paektu_Mountain

4 ай бұрын

I understand your point, but "capitalism is unscientific" is not a 100% correct statement. Both socialism and capitalism are systems that are scientifically studied. Both systems function perfectly for their own goals: capitalism is great for making 1% rich and the rest miserable, and socialism works great to push civilization forward. Now, if someone said "capitalism is the best system" or "capitalism brings global prosperity", now THIS is an unscientifical statement. This is the point I'm trying to stress. The systems themselves aren't scientifical, it's the statements made around these systems that can be scientifical or not. It's important to stress this because libs tend to say socialism is not scientifical, and when you try to explain why it is scientifical you end up bringing up the statements, the conclusions around socialism, but not socialism itself. And if libs don't understand socialism, then they're even less likely to understand these statements and conclusions. Which means if you get in a discussion like this with the mindset of proving that socialism is scientifical, you will fail 100% of the time.

Homelessness, poverty, and wealth inequality are policy choices.

@ayoutubechannelname

4 ай бұрын

Culture also makes choices. Women have a higher poverty rate than men, yet the majority of homeless are men.

@3nertia

4 ай бұрын

No, they're symptoms of capitalism - Profits over People!

@catserver8577

4 ай бұрын

@@ayoutubechannelname Links to evidence please.

@aynrandfan7454

4 ай бұрын

*personal choices

@ayoutubechannelname

4 ай бұрын

@@catserver8577 Majority of adults in poverty are women: The Basic Facts About Women in Poverty By Robin Bleiweis, Diana Boesch, and Alexandra Cawthorne Gaines Majority of homeless are men: The 2023 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress PART 1 If I posted the links directly, this comment would have to be manually reviewed before you see it.

Housing, healthcare and education should be a RIGHT!

@nightfall3332

4 ай бұрын

Food too.

@JohnT.4321

4 ай бұрын

@wyltedleaves That would require a complete system change from capitalism to socialism.

@Queen_of_Coffee

4 ай бұрын

I could also make the case for internet given its myriad of uses and cases where it is critical to have.

@patrickferguson7603

4 ай бұрын

Riiiight!

@drbachimanchi

4 ай бұрын

"Commies"of USSR were made villains for saying this

There's a small, public park down the street. For 30 years, it served as a bus stop for students, a popular pokemon go destination, and a place people from the neighboring neighborhood to go. It's a homeless encampment now, and has been for about 3 years. Every two weeks or so, the cops swing by to chase the homelessness out of there, but they always come back. They have nowhere else to go. 6 of the 12 houses on my street alone are empty. They're not for rent. They're not air bnbs. They're just... empty. When our immediate neighbor's husband died and she sold the house, we got to meet the new owners briefly. They never moved in, and don't plan to. The house is an investment property. Turns out they already owned 3 other houses on our street, and are looking forward to when my mother becomes ill and needs to sell the house to cover her medical debt. I've been asking the homeless people in the park down the street for tips, so I know what to do when my mother dies, and I too become homeless.

@kaydreamer

4 ай бұрын

Do you have squatters laws where you live? I'd start camping out in one of those vacant homes now. Fuck people who buy them and let them sit empty, they deserve to lose their 'investment'.

@3namechangezalowdevry90day7

4 ай бұрын

Buy the house from your mother! She'll get more aid without an asset.

@denisemayosky1955

4 ай бұрын

Vultures! And meanwhile, there's people just down the street who are in desperate need of housing. This is unacceptable!! No one should think that this is perfectly fine, even here in "exceptional America"!

@Jay-jb2vr

4 ай бұрын

What happen to 2nd Thought??

@zvjezdanapuljanic8891

4 ай бұрын

Terrible

I think using the term "scripture" to talk about the United State's Constitution is a great way to show how messed up american politics truly is.

@TheLiberaceTheory

4 ай бұрын

Callback to my college polisci teacher who did an entire semester on “the American civil religion”, detailing how the structure of our political system is built around Christian tropes. Complete with saints (Lincoln, Washington) that politicians reference from their pulpits (podiums), sacred texts (constitution, just the quotes of MLK that white people like), and biblical origin stories (manifest destiny, divine right to rule>>>capitalism’s “hard work” bootstrapping narrative).

@burningsnow9870

4 ай бұрын

It's hard to change our country when so many who prop up its neoliberal and hardcore conservative practices see our old documents as divine scripts.

@Roxor128

4 ай бұрын

Also a good fit for how they actually treat it: something they claim they follow, but cherry-pick the few bits they actually like.

@rickfakhre2400

4 ай бұрын

@@TheLiberaceTheory And anytime you suggest America is not the greatest nation: Heresy! Also, you could add in some military fetishism.

@chompythebeast

4 ай бұрын

Also use the words "regime" and "oligarchs" to describe Western liberal governments

I have struggled with homelessness literally for the past 7 years. I've mainly lived in my car, in between staying with family briefly, or short stints in motels when I can afford it. The reason? Shit has been too expensive! And when I did have everything together, it was on my way to getting a place, the pandemic happened and I got laid off from my job. That's been reality in this damn country. But yet, you still have those that think because they have theirs and they're doing better, obviously "you did something wrong."

@valerietaylor9615

4 ай бұрын

„Individual Responsibility.“ 😬

@denises3779

4 ай бұрын

Same situation ppl doing good don't see their money is being drained eventually they'll ne homeless too.

@KHX274

4 ай бұрын

Did you do something wrong? Serious question.

@rickynoodles2816

4 ай бұрын

Get involved in direct action

I'm on the verge of being homeless myself and I was thinking of how easily homelessness could be fixed, but of course our politicians would rather fund wars and genocide. Man I just wanna live, I don't care about owning some car, living in a luxurious house, or having a bunch of items people see as valuable. All I want in life is to be free of this capitalist society. I just want to live some place quiet and peaceful where I can grow most of my own food, filter rain water, and just be able to work together with people within a community.

@augustodelerme7233

4 ай бұрын

Go to pennsylvania they have a Land value tax if not go to puerto rico in san juan area.

@andrewberna4045

4 ай бұрын

Ya see, your second paragraph wouldn’t be possible without capitalism.

@3nertia

4 ай бұрын

Welcome to capitalism - Profits over People!

@nuance9000

4 ай бұрын

If it helps, after the financial collapse in 2007 we've been going through an economic depression (The Silent Depression- shhhh... Economists hate the D word), and I focus on myself and think more about my grandma and grandpa living through The Great Depression. But I recommend Cynicism. Diogenes. Dog. People always ask me why I always have my camera light on; it's because I can't see any honest people 😅 (humor is the medicine for our endless suffering)(Been homeless twice in early 2010s... I got lucky though 😢... Good luck)

@gemain609

4 ай бұрын

​@@andrewberna4045What? Everything he said is perfectly capable of being done outside of capitalism. What are you on about

The system protects private property rights. Everything has been turned into private property. People have pooled resources via hedgefunds and other financial vehicles to buy up all of the private property. People who have the resources and tools to build, repurpose, and change rules regarding housing to keep artificial scarcity in place to inflate the value of their assets. This makes people unable to afford anything. Then they criminalize those who are the victims of the system they engineered. No doubt we are one of the most sadistic societies ever. They live to put on a masquerade to get people to work harder so our empire expands it influence globally through military might. Can we just collapse already? We are getting to choose between two senile fascists and the only difference between them is how open and aggressive they are with their despicable behaviors.

@ey67

4 ай бұрын

That you have a choice is delusional.

@David-135

4 ай бұрын

@@ey67How is it that people don’t see through that illusion?

@valerietaylor9615

4 ай бұрын

They drank the Republican Kool-Aid.

@karlabritfeld7104

4 ай бұрын

You just explained how capitalism works. That's why it's so evil.

@bbblackwell

4 ай бұрын

Well said, though be careful about challenging the concept of private property rights. It's not about rights, but about choice. These problems can't be solved until we ubiquitously *choose* to give freely, as we do amongst our own family. Humans are cooperative, tribal beings, but it can't be forced. We need alignment with our true nature, and that can't happen in an authoritarian environment, be it capitalist or communist.

Being alive is even more expensive than I thought.

@bbblackwell

4 ай бұрын

"Pay to live" is the name of the game. The air is the only thing left without a meter, and they're already working on poisoning that so they can sell you their "clean" version.

@pennyjpie

4 ай бұрын

Hell being dead is expensive too for your family members. :/

@lame6810

4 ай бұрын

Even criminals get free food and housing

@AnisDys

4 ай бұрын

​@@bbblackwellgosh, I never thought of that. With the ongoing air pollution, it is just a matter of time until we start buying oxygen 😢

@bbblackwell

4 ай бұрын

@@AnisDys It's a disaster. We have to stop giving others authority to make decisions on our behalf. They're using our trust against us. Governments and their corporate allies will destroy all that's beautiful and natural in this world if we let them.

Victorian England was richest country on earth, but its workers slept in parks and doorways on starvation wages. When WWI broke out, they could not find enough men that met physical requirements of military service. Doctors said they suffered from conditions associated with childhood malnutrition.

@fieryrebirth

4 ай бұрын

Yep. It's why the US introduced the school nutrition/free school lunch program Not for nutritional needs and happiness, but to make viable soldiers. Like how the education system is based around preparing low-wage, non-critical thinking workers that are less likely to rebel against the ruling class

@jeffreywilheim5970

3 ай бұрын

​@@fieryrebirthPeople who believe this claptrap about the school system's being designed to create non critical thinking pawns of the "ruling class" should be forced to spend time teaching in an inner city school to learn just how hard teachers work to create critical thinking skills.

@fieryrebirth

3 ай бұрын

@@jeffreywilheim5970Just one look at the "No Child Left Behind" Act(or the "Children we don't like get left behind" act), the rise of STEM education for corporate interests, and the death of art classes in public schools should be an indicator. The relentless attacks on public education and their teachers by itself express their intentions. You always pay attention of the actions of the wealthy and powerful, as they have every reason to lie and mislead you through words. An attack on public education is a move to control the populace.

@jeffreywilheim5970

3 ай бұрын

@@fieryrebirth Spend any length at time actually working in a school serving disadvantaged students and you'll quickly see what a load of crap that all is. There are problems with urban education, to be sure, but they are mostly caused by the incredible bureaucracy of urban school districts and problems with the surrounding community, not by some conspiracy by teachers and educators to "keep the poor in their place." I really hope a good therapist can help you understand your need to believe that there is some vast conspiracy to keep the poor poor and that you are under the boot of some "ruling class."

@fieryrebirth

3 ай бұрын

@@jeffreywilheim5970 I know a troll, a sheltered troll no less that resorts to ad-hominid attacks is a troll that has nothing to contribute to the debate or argument. I'm sorry you lack empathy for people who are disabled and not only disadvantaged, but I hope you enjoy your sanctuary of ignorance.

The dust bowl was not a natural disaster. It was a result of over farming.

@twelvestitches984

4 ай бұрын

So you are saying that we are farming less than we were?

@CoreyKearney

4 ай бұрын

@@twelvestitches984 Not at all, but for a given plot of land yes. Crops get swapped out, plots are left fallow for a season to rest on a rotational basis. We have better irrigation, equipment, fertilizers that increase yields. Our knowledge of land management was hard won. None of that existed in the 1920's The dust bowl happened in a dry year, but was exacerbated by the soil being exhausted of nutrients, root structure and moisture. Many farms were basically sand, and weren't very fruitful.

@valerietaylor9615

4 ай бұрын

@CoreyKearney It was a result of poor farming techniques, not over farming.

@richardspillers6282

4 ай бұрын

In this case it was the same thing. Overworking the same plot of land. ​@@valerietaylor9615

@CoreyKearney

4 ай бұрын

@@valerietaylor9615 Yes the practice of not resting your fields ever. That's overfarming.

Dropping of homeless in the desert is very similar to something the police do up here in Canada. It's known as freezing out. The police will take a homeless person (usually native) and dump them outsids of town in freezing conditions.

@Praisethesunson

4 ай бұрын

So killing people without firing a gun.

@oikkuoek

4 ай бұрын

In the 40's the Germans had the decency to let them build houses for themselves. After the U.S cut off food supply, they had to turn on the gas lines to not let them starve to death.

@user-bv7zo6vd4m

4 ай бұрын

Really?! Do they not feel even the slightest of guilt?

@Acidfunkish

4 ай бұрын

Commonly referred to as "starlight tours." 🤦🏼‍♀️

@calicomorgan2408

4 ай бұрын

They did this a few weeks ago here in downtown Vancouver. One of our parks had a small group of homeless who were removed by force the day before a snow storm. Fucking pigs.

PSA for NYC: 44% of housing should be rent-stabilized, but illegal deregulation is rampant as the city relies on the honesty and integrity of landlords to register their apartments' status every year and don't investigate to confirm unless the tenant files an overcharge complaint.

@bbblackwell

4 ай бұрын

As if any of these particulars matter in the slightest. You're highlighting a single leaf on poisoned tree, rooted in radioactive soil. We're way beyond fixing this stuff one problem at a time.

@jeffreywilheim5970

3 ай бұрын

Actually zero percent of NYC housing should be rent stabilized. Rent control and rent stabilization laws are unconstitutional as they violate the takings clause.

Since i can remember, seeing homeless people has always been something i found awful, but even more incomprehensible. Even as a kid I could see that people not having a home, even if they lost all their money, their job, whatever, is completely ridiculous. How is someone expected to better themself and contribute to society if they are homeless, starving and both mentally and physically sick? I think it is so basic that people deserve homes (especially because they already exist and are empty??) regardless of their ability to pay. their is enough food and shelter for every human being, yet economic growth and lining the pockets of millionaires and billionaires is more important than being a compassionate human being? How can capitalism make sens, I think it's so stupid, illogical and downright cruel.

@Moses_VII

4 ай бұрын

The only way I could see anyone benefitting from the existence of homelessness is by having a reserve army of labour, a concept I wasn't aware of until recently.

@whutcat682

4 ай бұрын

​@@Moses_VIIfr I study economics and is very normal to always have a pool of jobless people so when we need them they can work. If they did not die of starvation in the mean time. Is so ridiculous

@whutcat682

4 ай бұрын

Agree, I literally just talked with a friend. We both right now stay in the university dormitory is like a box, a tiny bed, a chair, a table, and that about it. I do not even have a personal bathroom is a public one. On the other hand you have people with 10 properties renting, one dude staying in a 3 room apartment by himself and us being here asking if after uni we should live in a car as we are to greedy in the eyes of the employer by asking a better wage to actually afford a room to sleep 💀is so frustrating like yes you worked for pennies, but you did not had rent and your parents gave you food and everything in that time genius

@examplenameyoutube

4 ай бұрын

Lot of homeless people won’t get fixed even with home living. They just want to be outside and free and live junk life. Not even half of the homeless people want to work in a job.

@Spico_

4 ай бұрын

@@Moses_VII Karl Marx wrote a 3 volume book about this ~1.5 centuries ago, _"Capital"_ or _"Das Kapital"_ his main written work, where he critiques capitalism showing why it is a terrible system. That is why rich people hate him and demonize him, and indoctrinate non-rich people to do the same.

Canada is having a serious housing crisis of capitalism too.

@stevebottrell9154

4 ай бұрын

I think this is common in all capitalist leaning countries, especially in the west. And it's nothing new to this socioeconomic system either.

@insane_troll

4 ай бұрын

Things are a bit better in Canada, dollar bills don't have better housing conditions than people. They achieved this by abolishing the dollar bill.

@stevebottrell9154

4 ай бұрын

@@insane_troll Huh. I'm Canadian. I must have missed the memo. So I can burn all this paper in my pocket then?

@calicomorgan2408

4 ай бұрын

The NIMBYs here in Vancouver are disgusting. People say they're dangerous, but I say the cops dismantling their meager shelter are far more dangerous. I say the car centric design of our towns are more dangerous. I could go on

@MorbidRexx

4 ай бұрын

Housing crisis, cost of living crisis, mental health crisis, health care crisis, immigration crisis, education cost crisis... I think it's safe to say Canada is in a crisis across the board, at least from my perspective in Ontario. I don't even recognise this country anymore.

Thank you. We have this problem here in Australia, too. We are about to spend more than $230 billion on nuclear submarines that we do not need. A fraction of that money could end poverty and homelessness here. We've also instituted a system where people get tax breaks for rental properties that they own. It's madness and maddening.

@Moses_VII

4 ай бұрын

If Australia made its own nuclear submarine, it might make sense, because they are developing local industries of technology and science, but they are buying the submarine from a country which would have just given them free protection with its own submarines.

@mattcardarelli

4 ай бұрын

Gotta keep the war machine rolling

@chickenpants

4 ай бұрын

@Moses_VII and we're shafting France into the bargain. We already had signed contracts with France for submarines we don't need. Now the French know that our word means nothing. This whole deal is wrong at every turn.

@johnwayne2140

4 ай бұрын

Are those yellow, romantic Submarines like the one in Liverpool?

@peterwarner553

4 ай бұрын

We don't have anywhere near the problems of the US, The perception that Australians are as badly off as the US comes down to how the different governments define homelessness. In Australia for example, if your landlord tells you that in a couple of months they're going to sell the house you're renting and you have to find a new place to live, the government will consider you to have insecure housing and are therefore homeless, if you're worried about your ability to make mortgage repayments on your home loan then you have insecure housing and are considered homeless, there's a long long list of circumstances that will get you into the homeless category. In the US the criteria is much simpler, if you can't find a safe place to sleep, then you're homeless, if you get a bed in a homeless shelter, you're not homeless, have a caravan in a friends backyard, you're not homeless, couchsurfing, you're not homeless. If Australian homeless criteria were applied to the US, they wouldn't have hundreds of thousands of homeless, they'd have tens of millions.

I'm 54 and disabled with MS. My son lives with me and is disabled with chronic migraines. We will be homeless soon. Trying to escape an abusive homelife that is causing me MS relapses. Worked hard all my life, raised two kids and volunteered. We've applied everywhere and can't get housing help. Thanks for bringing attention to this issue.

@atanamorell2

4 ай бұрын

@DaveH-zk2ql agree. It's hard to fathom that it can really happen to you. But here I am ... or here we are, I should say. Best to you. We all deserve better 💕

A lot of people don't understand that a permanent poor underclass is *essential* for capitalism. It's what keeps us, the general masses, in line at work and subservient to employers. Concede, or *you* could end up on the streets. Only unions offer any counter balance.

@denisemayosky1955

4 ай бұрын

From some of the comments on here, "a lot of people" are just fine with that!🙄😡

@youtubesucks1499

4 ай бұрын

Start your own business. I did. It was unbelievably hard.

@RogerWareInc

4 ай бұрын

Sure. Let’s embrace socialism. That way we’re all equally poor.

@darkbeetlebot

4 ай бұрын

>Saying this on the comments of a video by a guy who is literally a marxist. Are you lost?

@BLACK80085

4 ай бұрын

​@@RogerWareInc lets just embrace anarchy. Yeah a joke.

Despite the wrong Roosevelt picture which can be corrected, this episode is an important one. JT and crew tackled presenting a systemic problem in under 16 mins which is amazing. Glad you’re up and running- missed your programs.

@imgooley

4 ай бұрын

Was gonna point out the wrong Roosevelt problem

@CynthiaMcG

4 ай бұрын

Same here.

@benco774

4 ай бұрын

Yup came here to say the same thing. Wrong Roosevelt footage, absolutely the right message and context.

@DanielLoveReel

4 ай бұрын

Hey make sure you show the correct Roosevelt.

@stuartraymond3595

4 ай бұрын

Jesus, 2 weeks later and still not corrected. Pretty major mistake.

JT is on fire with two bangers in one day.

@djangokill65

4 ай бұрын

🔥🔥🔥

@ZachariahJ

4 ай бұрын

Plus a Deprogram!

@st.altair4936

4 ай бұрын

Just hope he isn't burning himself out

Why there's a problem homeless in America? "We pay the workers the bare minimum and we dispose for them confortable houses made of cartoon and plastic!"

I work three jobs and still don’t have enough money to live 😢there is something wrong with America 🇺🇸

@zburnham

4 ай бұрын

No, that's the system working as intended. You have to work 3 jobs because the ruling class has decided that the drive to pay people as little as possible is the most important thing in their business model. You're so busy you don't have time to take classes or get job training to improve your situation. You and the people in your situation are necessary for the rich to stay rich; you're cheap labor. Of course you're a human being first and foremost to the rest of us, but to your employers you are a walking expense to be paid as little as legally possible (and even less in a lot of cases).

@aimxdy8680

4 ай бұрын

Despite 5.1% of americans working more than one job, it seems like everyone on social media is working 500 jobs at once and cannot afford food.

Same shit happening north of the border here 🇨🇦 never seen so many people living in tents in my life. It’s even happening in smaller towns

4:14 Making life worse for everyone because a policy would benefit black people. Many such cases.

@Annoyed_Human

4 ай бұрын

This is it, this is all! Only, its SPECIFICALLY for native black americans. Let them argue amongst themselves as truth needs no alibi. 🙏🏽

When I heard that the police is throwing people in the midle of a hot desert to die it put me in shock. I thought that after seeing the inhumane and low tatics the capitalist are willing to do to keep power I would never feel that shock ever agins , but unfortunatly the cruelty of this sistem and its perpetrators can not be saciable unless a revolution happens.

@abitoftheuniverse2

4 ай бұрын

Imagine the suffering of all eight billion people, every, unstoppable, second... Then remember, your awareness is the most important aspect towards relief of the greatest ills, so long as you act on your concerns. It gets better, because we do, all, care, for one another, to various degrees. Be in the more active 50%, and may the "Arms Race" that is remembered, is won with loving embraces of our fellow travelers, through time and space, right here on the planet where love began. ❤ Don't break; bend, and with, stand together. Don't be forgotten, as a single human, be remembered, as 8,000,000,000 of the Universes most impressive, animate, incarnations, looking forward to the future's memory, of this present, in *all the rest* of it's pasts. ❤🌌 ❤🌎🌍🌏 *Love You*

@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195

4 ай бұрын

The worst thing is that I didn’t flinch. I was not surprised one bit. I’m scared now that you mentioned it

@lebaronmarcus

4 ай бұрын

The way the US treats poor Americans is so similar to the way it treats poor foreigners (refugees, undocumented immigrants, and even poor foreigners living in their own country). Fascism is colonialism turned inwards

@valerietaylor9615

4 ай бұрын

The Nazis put homeless people in concentration camps.

@Dajenken

4 ай бұрын

That's what you call dehumanizing. There's a really interesting video that talks about the differences in the hiring process with police forces namely New York City and New Zealand. Dark personality traits verses normal which would explain some policing behaviour. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iZODw8RtYrnAgqg.htmlsi=zJos1sRtPUWaitNh

we have the same problem here in the UK.. every where you go in London there are "luxury" apartments being built, but who will live there?? The people sleeping rough on every street corner???

@kamilareeder1493

4 ай бұрын

Just like in Paris and NYC, often they aren't even luxury 🤷‍♂️🙈💀 just normal places. I grew up on an Indian reservation in a clay/adobe house 😮 at the time my single mother bought it herself. Now it selling on zillion for half a million 💀🙈⚰🥲 Who will live there now, like you said? The people currently paying 200$/month lot rent on a double wide trailer lol?

Yup. Sounds about right. Millionaires should not exist. George Carlin said it famously with his blunt joke. "Upper class does none of the work, keeps all the money. Pays none of taxes. Middle class does all of the work pays all of the taxes. The poor are there to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keeps em showing up at those JOBS."

@thelight3112

4 ай бұрын

I think you mean billionaire. You can become a millionaire these days by working in a well paying job and saving money.

@jeffreywilheim5970

3 ай бұрын

Which shows just how ignorant George Carlin was about the American tax code and anything else about how our country actually works.

here in brazil, to a a well off family buy a moderate home, we need to spend our whole savings from decades of work. it's just absurd

@fl0wey57

4 ай бұрын

Haven’t check the numbers myself, but sounds possible, seeing the circumstances…

@qjtvaddict

4 ай бұрын

So the whole continent is corrupt apparently

@LucianCanad

4 ай бұрын

Don't forget the recent study pointing out our largest metropolis has several times more empty homes than homeless people.

I live in Portland OR, and see the depravity of capitalism every day. I step outside my apartment and see people scrummaging through the trash trying to find food, anything to sell, cans, etc. I have seen many dead people who have OD or died from other health complications, just lying in the street. Mother crying because they can’t feed their children, people selling themselves for fentanyl. It’s horrific and both liberals and conservatives have zero solutions, they have no class analysis, they have no critique of capitalism. Their solution is “I just don’t wanna see it” or “we can just round them all up and send them to prison or a labor camp.”

@karlabritfeld7104

4 ай бұрын

I'm from Portland. You're absolutely right. Nobody wants to admit capitalism is hurting many innocent people while the one percent eat steak and lobster in their mansions.

@bbblackwell

4 ай бұрын

Communism yields the same results, so how different are these two systems really? It's all slavery and death, in one form or another, and it ends when we found our society on *love* rather than reward and punishment.

@williamalvarado1419

4 ай бұрын

@@bbblackwell I urge you to wrestle with Marxist/leftist/revolutionary texts and ideas in good faith. With a open mind and heart. It’s all about love. Always was.

@williamalvarado1419

4 ай бұрын

@@bbblackwell and to kindly point out, there has never been “communism” on a global scale, or even “national”. The very concept of a state is antithetical to communism.

@bbblackwell

4 ай бұрын

@@williamalvarado1419 I'm talking about communism as commonly considered, which is represented by the authoritarian political systems that claimed that title. I advocate a form of communal living, though rooted in willing generosity, not a denial of fundamental human rights. This requires honoring a man's decisions about his own labor and property.

Thank you for this report, Comrade. Gravely important discussion. I'd only add that the while 700,000 number is big, it is a massive undercount, as it only represents data surveyed of people rough-sleeping on the street. But the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty has found that "each year at least 2.5 to 3.5 million Americans sleep in shelters, transitional housing, and public places not meant for human habitation" which is what most of us think of with homelessness. I also think that when you add up the numbers of the kinds of people discussed in books like Nomadland -- workers living in their cars, in trailers, in long-stay hotels -- the numbers of houseless people only grows. The smaller figure is the one most circulated to lessen the blow. A horrible injustice!

@ernie39

4 ай бұрын

Excellent point!! As a small addition/example from something I learned recently, I was talking to a volunteer for a local river organization and found out one of the things they do is take a census of the homeless population living by the river along the bank -- before they started doing this, the city was completely missing the river population when it had taken homeless censuses. Goes to show that sometimes portions of even the most visible form of homelessness can be overlooked, leading to inaccurate results :-/

@mikec6733

4 ай бұрын

Thanks. That number seemed low to me.

3:25 I’m pretty sure that’s the wrong Roosevelt

@NotoriousSRG

4 ай бұрын

😢

@aaronkochenrath5863

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I saw that too

@sulaimation6253

4 ай бұрын

lol

@nightfall3332

4 ай бұрын

Noticed that too. LOL

@thomaswikstrand8397

4 ай бұрын

Well, ya can't stop a bull moose!

3:20 Teddy Roosevelt was not responsible for the New Deal, it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I’m surprised you made that mistake lol

@NotoriousSRG

4 ай бұрын

Fffffffffffff

@michimatsch5862

4 ай бұрын

Lol

@NRobbi42

4 ай бұрын

You hate to see it

@burningsnow9870

4 ай бұрын

Ah it happens. Might have had an editing miscommunication

@maoistgonzaloitepolpotist7743

4 ай бұрын

To be Fair Teddy is the forerunner to American progressivism in many ways. The social democratic wing of liberalism shares many similarities with Teddy.

I lived in group housing for years when I was younger. I sooner die than go back to that shitty life.

@jarvisaddison8560

4 ай бұрын

Wow! That bad?

@chulo9454

4 ай бұрын

Bet you'd live in group housing if the alternative was living outside in negative degree weather. Can it bro

Bro is sneaky, trying to make this another Second thought channel. Didn't think I wouldn't notice.😂

@Ocinneade345

4 ай бұрын

Tis fine

@jarvisaddison8560

4 ай бұрын

Did they take second thought down?

Housing is a human right.

@souououo

4 ай бұрын

okay

@peternyc

4 ай бұрын

@@souououo glad you're onboard.

@Manigo1743

4 ай бұрын

Then build your own house. Don't expect other to just hand you things.

@josephg1125

4 ай бұрын

@@Manigo1743 government wont let you

@jasonfenton8250

4 ай бұрын

​@@Manigo1743 Others handing people things is normal. Children and the elderly, disabled people, etc. are handed things all the time. Christ gave people handouts constantly, that was kind of his thing, and he's viewed as a literal messiah. Compassion and generosity are good things and a rising tide raises all ships. People temporarily struggling can become contributing members of society if they are given help to get on their feet.

Homelessness year over year growth metrics be making wall street eye's pop. "Why can't we get returns like that!?" We've built a system that not only thrives on but requires increased human suffering every year to remain "sustainable".

This feels just like a 2nd, second thought video. nice.

This is completely unconscionable 😢

@RedLeader327

4 ай бұрын

And yet, it's real. Murica...

@valerietaylor9615

4 ай бұрын

The land of “ Individual Responsibility”. 😬

In Germany we call those spikes and blocked benches "Defensive architecture". Even though I think it is incredibly offensive and against our 1st article in our constitution. The individual dignity is untouchable

people opposed to reparations and other measures to help black people just want to keep what's left of slavery alive. they know that they are disadvantaged and companies make billions by using them as cheap labor. it's all about money and power.

@douglashogg4848

3 ай бұрын

I have no problem with reparations but it should be noted just because you’re black that doesn’t automatically in title you to them. You have to prove your ancestors were slaves in the United States at some point.

@Billiepippen

3 ай бұрын

@@douglashogg4848 yes. we don't want Africans who sold us off then came here after segregation after we did the heavy lifting to get reparations. this idea makes us very angry. this is just for the lineage of those enslaved and under jim crow. some people like Rhonda rousey could be eligible. I rather some people who look white to get some than the Africans get any.

JT: "the new deal under Roosevelt" Editor: "here comes teddy!"

Hostile Architecture is also a great punk album.

@danielfromyesterday

4 ай бұрын

for real?

@danielfromyesterday

4 ай бұрын

the ashenspire one?

'We need immediate seizure of property?' Wow that's pretty radical...

when all of the wealth is concentrated at the top 1% is that surprising?

@BLACK80085

4 ай бұрын

If 1% wouldnt be accumulated at the top then they wouldnt get to play a god as much as they do.

Kinda crazy when you think about it from a common sense pov instead of from within the fishbowl

Happy to see FT in my sub feed 😊

Assets have value. Asset owners, therefore, own the world. Non owners have no value. The reason assets and their owners have value is that non owners are forced to work for asset owners instead of provide for themselves without selling their labor. The only important market is the labor market. If people truly valued freedom we would abolish the labor market now. Today. This very minute. The labor market is a slave market that has been financialized and turned into a statistical matrix. It operates according to ideas that are closer to math and engineering than to anything a regular person would recognize. The bottom line is that asset owners are the rulers and have been since the dawn of civilization. That's about 7,000 years of misery and alienation. Time to put a stop to capitalism and the ownership of assets. Private property (assets) are the root of all evil. Wake up people.

@FactsCountdown

4 ай бұрын

The comfort of rich depends on the abundant supply of poor. So if we all stop breeding slave workers for the rich capitalist then system would collapse. Without the poor the rich's assets has no value.

@FactsCountdown

4 ай бұрын

The comfort of rich depends on the abundant supply of poor. So we have to stop the supply of poor to rich class.

@lawrencium2626

4 ай бұрын

they will literally wait for a modern plague to gently explain the value of wealth in society and its attachment to work

@FridoGrahnify

4 ай бұрын

Yes!!

@peternyc

4 ай бұрын

@@FactsCountdown You are 100% correct. When capitalist countries speak of freedom, they are really saying they want the freedom to create and grow a global pool of destitute and desperate labor. Capitalism is a criminal institution masquerading as virtue.

Since Yankistan abandoned their role as an industrial superpower to be a financial superpower, it has a surplus of people who will never get a proper job, their economy is unable to provide for all citizens. That's what you get when the elite decides it's cheaper to make things in east Asia, their capital becomes transnational and the economic policies are left to the whims of the so called "free market".

@JohnT.4321

4 ай бұрын

I actually like the term "Yankistan". Capitalism is degrading which is not surprising and the capitalist elites are always looking for ways to maximize profits. They have actually killed people to ensure their profit margins. Profits over people is the staple of capitalism.

@valerietaylor9615

4 ай бұрын

And „Individual Responsibility.“😬

@thelight3112

4 ай бұрын

The economy is absolutely able to provide for everyone. It's flawed policy decisions that have made life unnecessarily hard for many people. That said, I do agree that exporting all manufacturing in a global race to the bottom was terrible.

The RICHEST & LEAST MORAL country in the history of mankind.

@firstlast8258

4 ай бұрын

Murica

@mrb152

4 ай бұрын

Really you must be a total idiot to believe that.

@valerietaylor9615

4 ай бұрын

What about Nazi Germany?

@sharongillesp

4 ай бұрын

@@valerietaylor9615 I don’t believe Germany was the richest. In fact, their high rate of unemployment is what prompted the rise of the Nazi Party who attacked the establishment. Creating fake news and spoon fed the people to believe Hitler would lead them to prosperity. BUT Nazi German was definitely immoral.

Both first and second thought in the same day?! 😱

Causes of homelessness: low wages / tight job market / high cost of housing / war on drugs / high incarceration rate (prison record)

@mrb152

4 ай бұрын

the job market is extremely good right now. Homeless people couldnt afford a house at any cost because most cant manage money in the slightest. War on drugs doesnt exist in states like Washington and Oregon, which have some of the worst homelessness, and the have de-incarceration policies.

@prschuster

4 ай бұрын

@@mrb152 You know nothing about real people in the real world. You live in a bubble.

@aimxdy8680

4 ай бұрын

Job market has been pretty well since 2021, Homelessness is only a problem for the west coast and some northeast cities like Philadelphia. In most of the midwest besides detroit, there is no homeless people.

We have apocalyptic theocratic 70 year olds who claim anything that helps people is socialism/communism and use that to deflect or scare people away from supporting ideas and laws that could help people. It's OUR government. It should work for us!

How Bout, "Country with the Wealthiest Few Billionaires On Earth" to realistically title this article.

Homelessness in the richest country? I didn't know Luxembourg had homeless problem.

@aimxdy8680

4 ай бұрын

Luxembourg may seem rich because its a city state and not a big country with big rurul populations, however its GDP per capita is weaker than Midland TX and San jose. And If you look at disposable income per capita for both median and average households. The US has the highest disposable income.

@dzejrid

4 ай бұрын

@@aimxdy8680 I can see the joke flew over your head. I'm sure you must fun at parties as well.

Human necessities should not be subject to a system of inexorable profit over people.

@aimxdy8680

4 ай бұрын

Simple, buy homes instead of renting. Buying is way cheaper after a year or even a few months and mortgage doesn't go up, property tax may go up but very little compared to rent.

@andresgarciacastro1783

3 ай бұрын

Stop being poor

I love owning nothing and hardly working, im doing the most important thing people right now can do and thats to do as little as possible. Work less, eat less, i just walk around and read lol. Live in a van and camp, love it! Calitalism? I WOULD PREFER NOT TOO

wow man you killed it!!! I love your videos. Thank you for bringing light to the homeless situation in our country. They are people too.

2008 was a nightmare. I was working hard but the workplace became mentally & physically abusive. the company eventually closed & i was homeless by 2016. It’s a little better now, but it still effects me. the idea of having a better life seems far fetched by this point

@Annoyed_Human

4 ай бұрын

I just had a major hotel hire me. Put me theu all the checks and backgrounds. I couldnt start immediately as i didnt have a specific uniform. I informed them. They let me know they'd order me 1. I never got the call 2 start. I emailed and was basically told "my living situation" is the reason. So, a job is KEY 2 preventing homeless but u deny me the job 2 keep me from homelessness? I literally dgaf about ANY policy r law anymore. It simply doesn't get anymore nonsensical than this.

24 houses each is nuts

@j.t.7264

4 ай бұрын

And yet america funds the destruction of houses of civilians on the other side of the planet

wow, i was early! Anyways, it is truly disgusting how capitalism requires these kinds of things and so many people to suffer. Let us work for the communist revolution comrades!

Finally back to JT's brisk but comprehensive detailed coverage on a subject. Show the problem and then give the answer to the problem.

Beautiful analysis as always. Nice to see you JT :)

Perhaps because we define wealth by one single criterion.

@zburnham

4 ай бұрын

Because there is no other objective, meaningful measure of someone's value. Kindness and compassion only show up on a balance sheet as a negative and therefore the only reason anyone cares about it is because it's costing them too much money. My mortgage is all paid up if all you're talking about is "kindness" or "compassion." For some reason they won't take those as a substitute for the cash balance on the note. We talk a good game about valuing people and their basic dignity, but in practice the only number (apart from your credit score, possibly) that anyone cares about is your bank account.

@Woodroffski

4 ай бұрын

Kindness and compassion isn't all I'm talking about. I've got to get up and go to work but hopefully I'll have the time and motivation to talk about it later on. Have a good day. ​@@zburnham

Anyone can become homeless. No one is immune from it.

$34 trillion in debt is the richest country on Earth? That can't possibly be true.

Police can drop homeless people into the desert!?!? What the heck!? That's one of the most horrible things I've ever heard!

How do you create homelessness then say it's illegal???

My biggest takeway is we should abolish the War on Drugs' 100 billion or so a year in spending. Especially since it's doing absolutely nothing for the Fentanyl crisis.

I once fantasized that if I won a stupid amount of money in the lottery, I'd buy the fanciest condo building in my city and make it affordable, co-op housing, ESPECIALLY to piss off the rich people. It's disgusting how they keep building these atrocious condos sitting at least half empty and cookie-cutter exurbs in the middle of nowhere that can't be accessed without a car and nobody can afford, when I literally walk past tents set up in my city's *City Hall Parking Lot* on my way to work everyday. There's more than enough housing in my city for everyone -- most people just aren't "allowed" to live there. For now.

“Richest country in the world” sounds more like a disease than a boast

I live about an hour from LA and I was _shocked_ to see the homelessness situation in Oregon when I first visited the state a couple years ago.

@aimxdy8680

4 ай бұрын

West coast is the poorest region in the US adjusting for cost of living so Im not surprised. The only decent state there is Washington.

Housing affordability is almost directly correlated with land use regulation. It’s not a surprise cities with the strictest regulations on density and tight urban growth boundaries drive up land values and make affordability impossible. It also reduces productivity which increases the cost of putting a house on that already expensive land. How else can you explain price differences between different cities? So many cities have made the supply of housing inelastic with a growing demand from an increasing population, less family formation, and federal reserve and tax policy. Housing affordability is a policy choice.

@maximemeis2867

4 ай бұрын

Your proposed solution would solve homelessness or reduce it drastically and at no cost to taxpayers but since it involves government violating rights less than it does, this chanel would rather that the homeless remain homeless.

@aimxdy8680

4 ай бұрын

Funny how dense cities like NYC with all those affordable housing projects are one of the most expensive houses in the world. Meanwhile car dependent cities who don't care about affordable housing like Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Omaha have one of the cheapest housing.

@usernameryan5982

4 ай бұрын

@@aimxdy8680 That's absolutely correct. I wouldn't say that minimizing density will automatically cause affordability as you can find plenty of examples of low dense areas that are extremely expensive. You're making a great point about those cities that they create an elastic supply curve primarily through having no urban growth boundary so developers can easily put in more supply of housing as demand increases which keeps housing affordable. They are also able to reach economies of scale on the urban fringe where they can convert 100 acres of previously used farmland into maybe a thousand new housing units. In dense cities like NYC, it experiences much more demand for housing than the cities you mentioned but they're not even close to being able to keep up with the supply needed because they regulate everything and they're terrible and putting in the needed infrastructure to support new housing. It's extremely difficult for a developer to find land that's buildable and impossible to do it at economies of scale. If a developer wanted to tear down extremely old housing in East Brooklyn, Queens, or the Bronx, people would lose their mind and protest. They'd also demand that the new housing be affordable even though it's economically impossible due to the land costs, development fees, possible requirements to use union labor, construction costs per square foot increases as building height increases etc. But by denying new development from being built, even if it was expensive, they lose the opportunity for there to be a pipeline of aging housing that eventually would become cheaper with time. There was a 1,000 unit apartment building that got rejected in Harlem because "only half the units would be under rent control." That is total madness, these affordable housing projects and rent controlled enforcements are absolute insanity. NYC could have housing that is actually affordable, but it probably never will because people don't understand what makes housing affordable and politicians want to sound like heroes with increasing supply side regulation.

@andresgarciacastro1783

3 ай бұрын

If you NEED to own a car you need to take into account when you consider house prices.

@usernameryan5982

3 ай бұрын

@@andresgarciacastro1783 these reason people need to own cars is because of land use regulations. If there weren’t parking minimums, set back laws, minimum width requirements, height limitations, ADU limitations, areas of high demand would naturally form to be much closer together leading to much higher use of public transportation. Due to these land use laws, public transit will continue to fail in America despite billions invested.

Love these analysis videos!

"Biased News" 😂😂 Love the straightforward attitude 💯

You showed the wrong Roosevelt when talking about the New Deal

Sometimes it's hard to watch these videos, I do feel hopeless and ineffective at times. I'm just getting by and ignoring old age.

I was born and raised in San Francisco from immigrant parents. Homelessness is really hard here because no matter how much money is thrown at the problem, more homeless from other areas come. This needs to be tackled at the federal level because no one county has enough resources.

@aaronsnumbuh2

4 ай бұрын

omg the parts about redistributing housing based on need has lost me lol. I will need to watch more vids here to become more open minded, but how would people that stand to lose a lot from this proposition be okay with redistributing houses? I worked hard for my house, and I don't like the idea that someone that does drugs all day can get get my house because they need it more.

Excellent video!

These are great but I really miss the news episodes )=

@oort2108

4 ай бұрын

I feel the same

in Los Angeles, the homelessness epidemic grew into the neighbourhood where I rented in January 2009. I went tent-hopping with some minor amenities & intoxicants to greet my negbors, & welcome them to living on the sidewalk adjacent to my truck. I have so much more to say on the topic, but I cannot muster the vocabulary, the time, the emotional energy, or the effort to write it here at this time. basically the only difference I noticed between me & them was I was white, non latino, they were latino.

Oh shit. Ive been following secong thought for awhile. Had no idea you had another channel. Hell yeah

Absolutely fantastic video! Very informative and well laid out.

There's a lot that could be done better. I've seen how even organizations profiting on assisting the homeless are wasteful, overcomplicated and inefficient because of the number of people and processes involved to provide assistance to even one family or individual. I feel like a UBI could simplify the process of providing assistance, while also still providing other services and assistance as needed. Also decriminalizing squatting would be good while simultaneously penalizing owning unused structures. Restrictions on corporations owning residential structures. Although other processes will be needed and some ideas being more drastic will likely be refuted they still should be proposed to shift the overall outlook of the issue hopefully leading to an acceptance of smaller scale policy as a compromise. Small steps.

First time I heard that quote from the Nixon admin was an Adam ruins everything episode. The one about marijuana

Every bloke for him/herself..only the strong survive.. That's a civilized society fo ya.

Thanks for posting this ❤,

We are a capitalist nation, where all the money is at the top, and our billionaires prefer to borrow money for everything. This is more dangerous than Rome in 475 AD.

I left home from high school in 1989 been homeless since. I found myself in crackhouses in Detroit or squatting while attending college I moved to Canada lived with students from other countries when I came back to the U.S. I was homeless in Atlanta I got a job an apartment because the Olympics was coming after the Olympics they tore down my low income housing area and all the homeless shelters and built high rise apartments. In 2000s I got with 3 co workers and split a 2 bedroom then the 2007 bubble we lost the job and the house we all moved in different long stay hotel's. Every city I know bulldozed low income housing area's and closed homeless shelters dumping people on the street.we slept in libraries hospital waiting rooms subway train's movie theatre's and eventually tents under the highways

A First Thought and Second Thought video in one day, exciting!

The anti homeless architecture sickens me. It’s the equivalent of a child crying and instead of seeing what is wrong you tape their mouth shut to shut them up.

Acts 4:35 (KJV) "35 and laid them down at the apostles’ feet. And distribution was made unto every man according as he had need."

Great video!!

The real reason is drug addiction

How about progressive tax scale for real estate? This way, that empty houses can't just wait for the buyer forever and so developers have to low the price, just to get rid of that homes.