Solving a problem at its root cause is usually better than trying to fix the consequences of those causes. Just helping the homeless without addressing what pushes people to homelessness would be a never ending cycle of providing aid to new people pushed into homelessness
The truth is, this isn’t an accident. This is both a necessary consequence of, and a necessary precondition for, the vast wealth disparity that has been engineered into our society. We don’t change things not because we can’t, but because we don’t want to.
I mean, we could try. We certainly aren’t providing adequate funding.
Solving a problem at its root cause is usually better than trying to fix the consequences of those causes. Just helping the homeless without addressing what pushes people to homelessness would be a never ending cycle of providing aid to new people pushed into homelessness
The truth is, this isn’t an accident. This is both a necessary consequence of, and a necessary precondition for, the vast wealth disparity that has been engineered into our society. We don’t change things not because we can’t, but because we don’t want to.