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by RhysU 1408 days ago
To be perfectly awful, 552K homeless out of 335M people is about 1.6% of the US population.

Even high-functioning and privileged individuals seldom have their shit together 98% of the time. I can't go 5 days without doing something chillingly stupid.

It is frankly astounding that we achieve better than 98% on any homelessness metric. A long forgotten ancestral memory says: there but for the grace of God go I.

Root cause: humans stink individually but we are robust in aggregate.

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I botched that division, off by a factor of 10.