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by inigyou 11 days ago
The market would probably solve it if you fired all the bureaucrats but there may be other side effects to that
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Because there was no homeless before government programs.

It’s like history was the first casualty of late stage capitalism and no one knows about the new deal or the war on poverty.

They had homes, cardboard box homes. Then the government said a home couldn't be a cardboard box, and confiscated the cardboard boxes and now they sleep on benches.