"Addiction and mental health issues" is literally "moral failing" - how are the homeless and poor supposed to get treatment for those things?
You nailed it. The existence of a permanent underclass is a feature, not a bug. That's the implicit threat of capitalism: if you dare not give up your body to the machine, you could become one of those people.
They absolutely are, but most of the "christians" in my area have pivoted to "its addiction/drugs/mental health! and no we can't ever fix those things!"
"Giving them a house won't solve their problems", I hear that from Christians around me all the time.
“What problems do you think homeless people have? Please list them.”
Dare them to not list “not having a place to fucking sleep” as one of their problems
I love that it's premised on the inability to provide anything beyond a house.
At least it will solve one of their problems, one of the really big ones even.
if only there was something in Christianity about reaching out to people, being patient and forgiving with them and willing to help. It sure is a shame that the bible is just the words
DON'T BE GAY printed on every page
"ah, so...will you fund full mental health and addiction recovery services with beds and shelter and storage for their belongings?"
"I'd still rather not..."
It's also really dissonant when you think about it. The middle and upperclass is extremely into demanding material remedies for mental illness and constantly talks about better treatment for its own mentally ill in the corporate world.
They could probably do a whole ep on how the mental health industry and the narratives around it blew up in a way that still heavily reinforced class distinctions. It mirrors what happened overseas with the way PTSD is covered.
They hate the poor and justify their hate in "they deserve being poor because else they wouldn't be poor" just like text book fucking calvinist
if people are regularly hungry they have a reduced capability to plan meals as their biology demands they get calories NOW. people literally demonise poor people for biological reactions to hunger
"But you want to fund social programmes, right?"
"I would love to but we simply don't have the money for it. Also these are very complicated problems that can't be solved by throwing money at them"
He likely does see them working there given that 44% of homeless people have jobs despite about a quarter have known severe mental or physical disabilities.
yeah that one has been and will be around for as long as there's been rich people and poor people
"We're going to blame mental health and drugs and not do anything about those either."
-Liberals
I'm certain an enormous percentage of people still outright claim that people are poor because they're 'lazy', because I hear it all the time.
