Yet a study that involved giving homeless people money without strings attached showed that most spent it on things to improve their future, like buying a used car, paying off debt, pursuing education, starting a business and getting a home. There were no adverse outcomes for any of the participants.
But still our society will judge the homeless and make out they’re all feckless addicts who can’t be trusted with help.
It is insanely easy to end up homeless, the vast majority of the working class could last a month, maybe two if they’ve got some savings.
What’s noticeable here is the £2,000 given is quite a big lump sum, actually capable of helping people make a difference. It’d be inhumane to test it, but if that £2,000 was split up into 12 payments of £166, would it have made as much of a difference? I doubt it. Yet that’s how most benefits work, a pittance a month. Just enough to keep you alive, nowhere near enough to actually help lift people out of poverty.
That’s a good point. Especially with how benefits are usually granted for a short time and many people fail the reassessments, get into debt to survive before the appeal reinstates their benefits, it’s difficult to even get out of the debt cycle on benefits. But they get accused of being feckless.
The people who say that think that since they’re homeless it’s their fault and they will never change, which is both wrong and dehumanizing. It’s even more absurd when you consider that in the USA, the most anti-homeless country ever, around 70% of people are living paycheck to paycheck, so they are one tragedy away from becoming homeless too.
Don’t give the rich money. They’ll blow it on cocaine, prostitutes, hush money, religious fascist foundations, and crypto scams.
Too late my good lady…
Honestly? Even if they were going to spend it on drugs or booze, I wouldn’t judge them. If you’re tossed out by society and forced to sleep rough, a mental escape via drugs or booze might just be the salve needed to make it through the next night. I get drunk sometimes for the escape of it and I’m housed, I can’t imagine the horrors of living on the streets and being constantly judged by those who are allegedly the pro humanitarian types. (that said, I don’t usually have cash but if I see someone outside a store I’ll offer a drink or some food if I can afford it that day)
A rich conservative Capitalist of the British diapora, Rob Ford, has alchoholic problem even when he is able to become the mayor of Toronto, Canada.
It still cracks me up that Crack Smoking Toronto Mayor Rob Ford became a Daily Show meme.
Also, If you’re addicted to certain hard drugs, going cold turkey can literally kill you. So you literally need to spend part of your money on drugs. In that case it seems hypocritical not to want them to spend your money on drugs. “Okay, your rehab starts in two weeks and I don’t want you to die tonight, so please buy the minimum amount of drugs you need for today, but do it with someone else’s money. Please spend my money on a healthy smoothie instead.”
“don’t give the homeless money because they’ll just spend it on drink/drugs”
So would I
Yeah while I’ve always known systemic support to homeless people is objectively a good thing and most people take advantage of opportunities granted to them, I’ve also known that individual support to homeless people, like throwing a beggar a few dollars on the street, will likely lead to them buying drink/drugs/whatever habit gets them through.
And you know, so what? I’m giving them money to help them. Why the hell should I care if they’re using it to get high? Literally living on the streets. It’s the smallest comfort for them. Not like my contribution was ever going to get them a house.
Even if they spend it on drugs, I just wish them a nice trip and hope they didnt shoot up a lethal dose of fent. I personally know people with Opioid addiction and if they dont have it it is so Bad that I wouldnt even wish thats on my enemys.
As long as metadone isnt widely available Boone gets of of opioids.
Thats why i dem it insanely evil not to give unhoused people Money because BuT DrUgS
Tldr.: make Methadon, Narcan and Test strips widely available and fuck Yuppie assholes
By this logic, the “humanitarian” interventions by Pax Americana in former European colonies do not aid development. They made the developing countries depending on free stuff by foreigners and there are evidence for them. One example is the intentional “donation” of free food to countries with no starvation to force the local farmers into bankrupt and make those countries dependent on foreign import of food. Another example is the donation of free shoes to countries with a competitive shoe markets to destroy the cultural importance of local shoe enterprises. The victim blaming also means that the Scary Red terror boogyman are exaggeration to justify brutal authoritarian regime in Pax Americana since the invisible hand only hires the hard working innovation tyrants to manage lazy Capitalists and not hard working people. Pax Americana also should not assist Ukraine, Israel, or Guaido since it made them dependent on foreigners who do not work for their interest.
