How did we create a society where we can’t afford to live in our own country?
Nobody is going to like what I am going to write, but I have the opinion that homeless people are generally happier in modern developed country when you compare to other countries.<p>As long as there are minimum efforts done to take care of the poorest, meaning charities and a minimum of a justice system, things are relatively good enough.<p>I think the debate rather belongs to why do we constantly need to use carrots to run a society? As long as society has rules that are in agreement with our natural instincts, meaning self preservation, things will be easily managed, but not easy for everyone.<p>When we will understand that &quot;go get that income by yourself, joe!&quot; cannot always function properly, maybe things will change a little. I have never understood the undying belief that &quot;work is necessary for society to function&quot;. It is not. Humans have constantly worked to avoid human labor, but for some weird reason, people still want to work and mooching has a bad reputation.<p>We are just approaching a weird, dystopian future where food is everywhere, but for some reason humans cannot agree to find a relevant system to feed and shelter everyone properly. Capitalism is not the problem, it is just that nobody can agree on helping each other, and I sense that everyone is afraid of letting government be more gentle because it would somehow resemble communism or socialism.<p>Go figure.