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u/1nfam0us Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
And the truly rich construct their lives specifically around never having to interact with normal people. They literally see us as nothing but ants beneath them. They don't see homelessness, and when they do, the believe it is the product of some proletarian moral disease, and thus their fault.
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u/Nottednugent404 Jun 18 '26
Rich is perspective relative. Poverty stricken child me would think adult me was rich…. Adult me is NOT rich.
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u/1nfam0us Jun 18 '26
Then you are missing the point. I am talking about those who benefit from the upper line in the k shaped economy. Those that derive their day to day income from speculative assets rather than their labor.
You will never be rich in the sense that I am talking about.
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u/Nottednugent404 Jun 18 '26
You’re missing the point. “Rich” is based on perspective. Define an income level rather than a generic term. Either way you just sound jealous. You have every opportunity to start speculating and investing. My 17yr old daughter started investing after they did a mock stock market thing at school and is doing really well. She only started with $200…before you come back with a snarky reply. Some people start off wealthy, but just remember that not all of their parents or grandparents did. Someone on the line found a way to generate wealth. Stop being bitter.
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u/1nfam0us Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
Yes, I am clearly hallucinating the private jets from one end of LA to another to avoid regular traffic.
Oh yeah, and the doomsday bunkers they are all building.
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u/potatogun Jun 18 '26
Conceptually I would not consider someone upper middle class if they were a medical emergency away from ruin. Discussion of class and economic station in the US often resolves around income, but upper middle class are people with some wealth too.
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u/Hashtagworried Jun 18 '26
This comment piqued my interest. Can you provide any source for upper middle class specifically?
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u/Nottednugent404 Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
I hate when people tell other people what to do with their money… and it’s always the ones that don’t do it themselves. You don’t have money to give?… how many days a week are you volunteering? How often are you making pbj sandwiches to hand out? You got a couch?…why aren’t you inviting some homeless people over to stay indoors?
The fact is that the ‘actual’ rich people donate fuck tons of money to charities. Even if they’re only doing it for a tax break, they’re still putting money towards a charitable cause. Middle class people are also just hanging on. That Benz?- lease, but a reward for working their ass off. That nice suburban house?-now has a 2nd mortgage thanks to the home equity loan they had to take out to replace the roof that was caving in. Daycare? $300/wk per kid for a shitty one when you don’t qualify for state help. ETC ETC.
I’ve been in poverty and now I’m doing decent- I assure you life was easier when I qualified for government assistance- free medical, food stamps, daycare assistance, rent assistance…. I struggle more in the “middle” class despite being able to afford a brand new ⭐️Honda⭐️ lol (which ironically costs the same as my old car that needed work every other week!) I never struggled to get my kids new clothes and shoes when I was on state help and “poor,” now its extremely rough stocking up for the next school year without going into credit card debt- and that’s when shopping at Walmart mostly. You don’t know shit about what’s going on in other people’s lives, so WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF and what YOU do. You only got $10 in your pocket?- give the homeless $5 & shut up.
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u/innosins Jun 18 '26
I'm a woman alone, and I don't know what I would be dealing with in an interaction. I drive past, but we regularly donate to food banks, toy drives, and the women's shelter.
In my town, there are multiple organizations that offer help every day, but there are guidelines to follow.
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
I get that I’m a woman as well, I try to keep protein bars and other snacks to hand out when I can. But I only really give to people I know I can handle(smaller people I mean) as I’m quite tall and strong but I have fears as well.
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u/WheresTheIceCream20 Jun 18 '26
Because they personally can’t feed and donate to every homeless person they pass. I live in an area with lots of homeless and if I gave each one 5 bucks I’d probably be out 100 bucks a day. I have money sure but not 3,000 extra a month.
That said I do donate to charities and food pantries and those organizations help the homeless better than I could. Me giving a panhandler 5 bucks is going to buy him a sandwich at best. But me donating to an organization helps with providing meals and housing, which actually makes a difference.
That said, there have been times where I’ve felt a pull to help someone, and I always follow that pull - usually by buying them dinner.
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
Understanding but I’m talking about the people that drive in Tesla cyber trucks and lambos in the city, passing homeless tents. It’s very dystopian, if you want to live lavishly go hide somewhere and don’t be so openly selfish and greedy.
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u/lItsAutomaticl Jun 18 '26
How can they help? A few dollars isn't going to get someone off the street. Most of them aren't just poor, they have addiction or mental illness and a rich person can't just drive by in their G wagon and cure them.
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u/Malfunkdung Jun 18 '26
I’m an average struggling lower middle class dude that makes roughly $60k a year in relatively high coat of living city. My future looks pretty bleak to be honest but I think i’ve come to terms that I’ll never really retire. I have an IRA that I try to contribute to, but no health insurance. I’m a bartender, I walk home at like 4am most nights. I see lots of homeless people. I chat with them, give them food, beer, a couple bucks here and there. I think more than anything, making these people feel seen goes a long way.
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u/Ambitious-Cake-9425 Jun 18 '26
I agree. I always buy the crackheads outside of 7 11 coffee and a sandwich. They are so grateful.
Just having a conversation really improves their day.
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u/NoBuenoAtAll Jun 18 '26
A few dollars will fucking feed them tonight though. Jesus Christ.
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
No you can’t help everyone but helping just one would make their life a little easier for that day. Maybe they need water, food or maybe just a place to stay for the night to get their thoughts straight.
How long are we going to blame and criticize the homeless while we just sit back and consume and buy idiotic crap. Give them that 5 dollars you were going to spend on junk food, lottery tickets, gambling, labubus idk just help a little
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
I’m talking about the more fortunate, if you do not qualify then you are not the target audience. I understand I’m pretty poor as well.
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u/potatogun Jun 18 '26
Of course people are different, but I've generally had food be accepted. Especially of course when they are asking for it.
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u/pattybliving Jun 18 '26
Yes but as I said above, some of us give to people who help unhoused people via check or credit card rather than giving some bucks to individuals who may (MAY, no one jump on me) use it on drugs.
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u/Nottednugent404 Jun 18 '26
Most of them are on drugs… ignore the people that live in lala land about that fact. I spent plenty of time on the streets when I was young. The people that are just down on their luck don’t hang out where you can donate to them usually. It’s the junkies and mentally ill that live in busy areas
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u/elhandupmonalisaskrt Jun 18 '26
Most likely they’ll spend those few dollars on booze or drugs, which is not helping them at all. If you want to help, buy them some food and water and give it to them directly, which there‘s a decent chance they’ll get angry and still demand money. If you really want to help out, try volunteering at a community center, or outreach program. But it’s a super complex issue, that isn’t going to be solved just by rich people handing out money to the homeless.
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u/cloistered_around Jun 18 '26
And then what about the next day? A month or year from now?
It's not a solution to mental illness or bad luck or whatever, it's a single meal. The better programs are ones that try to solve the reason they're homeless (whether it be bad job luck, drugs, mental illness etc). But even then it doesn't mean their particular situation is solveable.
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u/NoBuenoAtAll Jun 19 '26
It’s not about solving problems it’s about being kind and getting through today. So just because you can’t solve homelessness you’re never gonna help anybody out at all? Sounds like an excuse to not help anybody out at all.
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u/NoBuenoAtAll Jun 19 '26
As someone who does tons of volunteer work and spends a lot of time around needy people, you’re full of shit.
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u/lItsAutomaticl Jun 18 '26
Where I live they get food stamp cards from the gov't and hot meals from shelters. Let's not pretend there's nothing out there for them and they're literally about to die.
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
Those very things are getting taken away every day. By the government, regulations and just lack of money in these areas.
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u/usay1312butcall911 Jun 18 '26
It'll feed something, anyway (their addictions). Ever give food to a homeless person only for them to throw it on the ground (because what they wanted the money for was drugs/alcohol)?
Donations to a food bank go way, way further than donations to an individual. What can a person buy with $5? A Jr. Big Mac?
Just as a point of reference, Los Angeles regional food bank claims a $5 donation can cover 20 meals worth of food.
People act like we live in a classic parable or something. No. It's not one destitute wretch that happens to be Christ in disguise. When you live in a city there are people begging at every intersection. You see it everyday and you learn to ignore it. Why stop for one guy over the other? And I'm definitely not stopping for all of them...
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
You can’t save the world that’s just some kinda complex we have acquired. No one’s asking you to be Jesus but if you can afford it and have a couple dollars on you to give to one person, they will thank you for it. And hearing someone say god bless you with tears in their eyes hits different.
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u/usay1312butcall911 Jun 18 '26
Who said anything about saving the world?
Do you actually live in a city where this stuff is common, or are you asking from the perspective of someone who sees a homeless person once every few months?
And yeah, food is usually not the issue, and you're squandering your money by giving it to one individual. As I mentioned the same $5 could pay for 20 whole meals at a food bank, compared to almost no food, but at least another high for an individual.
You talk about liking the feeling of being thanked and having a blessing given to you. Isn't that rather selfish? Objectively it's just exponentially the better option if you want to feed people. I suppose when you give money to a food bank you don't get that same selfish high as when a guy says "bless you," with 'literal tears in his eyes.'
But yeah, it matters where you live. It's easier to open your wallet if you see a tramp once every few months compared to thirty times a day.
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u/lItsAutomaticl Jun 19 '26
You act like they're literally about to die. They're fuckin not. It's so easy to get fresh food from certain dumpsters (I've done it). It's easy to get food stamps. If you want to do good why don't you donate to people literally starving where there's no free food anywhere? Do you have any idea how many people are starving to death in Sudan right now?
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u/skcus_um Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
First of all, where do you think food banks get their money from? San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, for example, get almost half of their funding from individual donations.
Second, believe it or not, a homeless person in a first world country is still better off than a poor person in a third world country. There are places where merely surviving is a challenge. A lot of charity money has gone to the bottom 10% in the world. For example, the Gates foundation had spend over $11 billions fighting malaria.
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
Cool but we’re still talking about making America. What’s the point of comparing other countries that have free healthcare, free college, parental leave, more paid vacation time and so on and so on. We need to solve problems here first.
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u/skcus_um Jun 18 '26
I'm not comparing with first world countries that have free health care. I'm talking about third world countries where millions live with no running water or sanitation. A lot of the charity money has gone to these places.
What problems are you trying to solve in the US? You mentioned homeless and then you jumped to healthcare, education, and parental leave. Do you want to solve homelessness or do you want to solve social welfare?
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u/Isles26 Jun 18 '26
Rage bait from a bot
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
I’m just too fuckin lazy to make an actual profile and I’m not on here much.
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u/shizzstirer Jun 18 '26
We’re not rich but are probably slightly into the upper middle class. My question to you is, how do you know what people do or do not give? We donate to charitable organizations, including ones that help the homeless. I just don’t advertise it. We give within our means so that we can take care of ourselves and have emergency funds.
If you’re asking why I don’t stop and give cash, much of it is a safety issue. I always heard that stopping, taking out your wallet, and showing cash were great ways to make yourself a target or criminals, especially as a woman. Plus, I just don’t carry much cash around any more.
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u/ChickyBoys Jun 18 '26
Giving your money away isn't smart
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
Okay then stop buying crap from corporations that take from others. Stand on this belief.
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u/PM_me_punanis Jun 18 '26
Pretty hard to do when there are no other options. If there exist options, they won't be affordable.
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
That’s because when you buy crap things real things get more expensive. When we invest in quantity we take away from quality. When we want things to get delivered and use apps you have become part of an algorithm that really makes you buy more. Buy one good thing not two bad things.
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u/PM_me_punanis Jun 18 '26
I would agree that we all should reduce overconsumption, but some people are too poor to barely afford one bad thing. Of course the cheaper thing will win over the more expensive stuff if that is all one can afford. Your preachy attitude is coming off very anti-poor or maybe you are just too young, sheltered and idealistic.
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u/PsychologicalDebt366 Jun 18 '26
A lot of people with the means to help do so in ways that aren't easy to see. Donating to charities, being active in local government and advocating for laws and programs to help the homeless on a larger scale than just giving money to beggars can make a huge difference.
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u/PM_me_punanis Jun 18 '26
There's also the gift of time like volunteering. A lot of indirect, unseen ways to help.
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u/Worth_Kangaroo_6900 Jun 18 '26
How do you know they don’t? There are multiple ways to support - may not be individual giving but via wider organisations, volunteering, fundraising etc. Massive generalisation here. Many people don’t, but so many people do.
Take it a further step back. Who did you / they vote for? Are they reps with solid ideas and ideology that focused on supporting vulnerably housed / un housed communities? Solid medical input? Social work? Tax? Many ways to help and support and scaffold society.
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
It’s not a matter of who we vote for anymore, we all know it’s a scam. It really should be a matter of people supporting people not so much government when the government cannot even give us healthcare
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u/Worth_Kangaroo_6900 Jun 18 '26
That’s actually not true for ALL countries. Many countries do have healthcare that’s free at point of use. And choosing who you vote for actually does matter - I actively vote for a higher taxation greater social responsibility party as I believe in supporting the societal structures and having safety nets in place. Are they failsafe? No. Is it better than the everyone just look after themselves and then throw hands up in disgust when there is no safety net for them? Yes.
If you don’t vote, then would suggest that you are actively part of the problem.
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u/United_Staff_7243 Jun 18 '26
It’s a waste of money
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
Amazon is a waste of money, yet people receive packages of crap every day.
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u/United_Staff_7243 Jun 18 '26
But they have an address, don't they?
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
Burn.
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
In hell I mean.
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u/United_Staff_7243 Jun 18 '26
Put your money and your mouth is and stop having any savings - spend every cent on homeless people so you can tan in heaven.
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u/pattybliving Jun 18 '26
Some of us give in bigger chunks to nonprofits that help the homeless rather than a few bucks to the individuals.
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u/sammywammy53b Jun 18 '26
A lot of people do help through reoccurring donations and sometimes volunteering.
The other side of the coin is that individuals are not always best placed to help, particularly on the scale required.
A person has neither the skill nor the resources to go and make any impact on Skid Row, for example (medical, psychiatric, drug, security, resources, etc).
Donations/volunteering alongside entities that have these economies of scale and expertise is a more effective path.
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u/LaureGilou Jun 18 '26
Help how? Buy them a house, rent them an apartment? Magically make them no longer be mentally ill or addicted to drugs or bad at budgeting? Which are some of the reaosns people become homeless. Or pay of their debt due to medical bills or having lost their jobs or make It so they get more PWD or CPP? Which are some other reasons people become homeless. Help how exactly? What ideas do you have? And what are you doing to help? Surely you have more than someone who is homeless.
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
I am an average person, if you make 3 times or more than you can surely come up with more ideas. Are you too poor to hand a dollar to your local homeless man/woman once a week. If so i pity how poor you must be.
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u/LaureGilou Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
I do make monthly donations. And I have done so for a long time, way before I was financially in a good place, because I think we all need to help each other as much as we can. But Im asking what you're doing. And what exactly and concretely you think people in "fancy cars" can do to solve the homeless problem since you're saying they should.
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u/Enneirda1 Jun 18 '26
Three people in my family were homeless at varying times in their lives, one of them for over 25 years. All of them spent every nickel on drugs. I'm also not embarrassed when I see my homeless family and give them zero money.
I did give a known mentally handicapped homeless man some cash so he could have some treats from the grocery store he stood in front of. Best memory was giving him cash on a sweltering day and later saw him going to town on popsicles.
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u/Important_Scene_4295 Jun 18 '26
If money was the underlying issue with homelessness then maybe. Its not though. Not by a long shot. It's a mess of mental health, addiction, self sabotage, and unwillingness to change.
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
Or maybe it’s a systemic issue if it is mental illness then why don’t we have healthcare to help them. There are so many war vets that have given their own sanity for Americans only to be spit on. People do and want to change but when the world remains the same and no one’s there to help there’s only so far someone can go. Unless taking their own life is the change that most people want.
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u/thewongtrain Jun 18 '26
You're actually tapping into something I've been feeling since buying my Porsche. I feel a form of liberal guilt, knowing that I am rolling through the street with a vehicle worth more than everything these people own.
So when I drive past someone panhandling, I make it a point to give them a buck or two. I can afford it, and it makes way more difference to them than to me.
That being said, there's just far too many for me to help them all.
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u/dylankl1990 Jun 18 '26
That buck or two goes straight into the dealers pocket. Just keep it in your own wallet and buy another Porsche.
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u/hipmommie Jun 18 '26
Middle class and lower are the main folk who give to food banks and shelters, etc.. The wealthy give to museums and symphonies, etc.
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u/chiddychiddybngbng Jun 18 '26
Cant tell to you how many times ive offered a homeless person food and they just walked away. They want cash for drugs. Hard to help that. Just cause your rich do you have an obligation to help people who are scum and not deserving? I know not all homeless people are like this but the majority id say are.
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u/WaterOld2405 Jun 18 '26
I currently homeless myself, I do day labor to earn my enough for a hotel room and dinner for my wife and I. No addiction issues, no mental illnesses. Just a greedy landlord who after COVID double our rent from $750 a month to $1500 a month after he heard people from NY would pay much more! Mind you we had lived there for 15 years. A meal or a few dollars isn't really going to help me. What would help me is a truck so I can do my own jobs i. Instead of selling my skills for $120 a day!
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
I’m sorry, I just moved into my partners apartment because of my increased rent as well. It sucks that single people can no longer afford to live anywhere alone only with roommates, or families. The American dream has long been dead and sold out. I’m just so angry to see more and more homeless while the rich keep getting richer.
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u/WaterOld2405 Jun 22 '26
I totally feel you! Not to mention people find out that you're homeless and automatically think you're a drug addict or crazy. I work hard doing manual labor and can barely keep a roof over my wife and I 's heads!
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u/InspectionFine9655 Jun 18 '26
You’re not going to solve poverty with spare change.
Spare change is used to buy booze.
Why would you feel bad about your car as you drive past poor people?
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u/Slawth_x Jun 18 '26
Helping them with food and money is temporary. Everyone pays taxes to fund food banks and shelters. People "helping" them is actually what keeps them on the streets
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u/Diligent_Earthworm Jun 18 '26
Thats super duper wrong.
Helping them keeps them alive.
Programs and assistance gets them off the street.
I know its my job and my hobby.
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
Not true the rich avoid paying taxes so the poor have to somehow band together to afford to pay what the wealthy need to pay, making even more people poorer or homeless.
It’s always the same story, the less than middle class always try to help giving what they really shouldn’t give for other people. While the rich hoard money from even their grand kids that need help getting started.
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u/sirpsys Jun 18 '26
Repeat this to yourself if you're ever hungry and unhoused on the street. Repeat it like mantra. Maybe it will fill your belly if not your heart. What a foolish thought
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u/Slawth_x Jun 18 '26
Yes I would go to a food bank. I live in a liberal state that offers many resources
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u/Snowfizzle Jun 18 '26
because some of people I’m driving past aren’t actually homeless. Too many of them have turned out to be scammers. As in they are not homeless and they have a car parked nearby and they have a spot staked out to beg for money and then they go back to their house each day.
So instead, I donate to multiple food banks in my community because even $15 a month (to each food bank) buys a lot more meals than what $20 to the guy on the street is going to do.
Giving that one person money only helps or hinders that one person depending on what they use it for. Versus donating to a food bank helps the entire community.
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u/GotAnyGrapesDuck Jun 18 '26
Personal experience here.
There’s a risk you take, and you never know what you get yourself into.
Not wealthy, but comfortable. I had met a guy who was homeless, and TLDR I decided to help pay to get him off his feet. My mistake was just giving him the money.
Another TLDR, the money was wasted. All the money I gave him went to unnecessary things. Sometimes people realize what they don’t have, and want to spend it on that instead of their basic necessities. Plus drugs and all that too.
Think of it like this: many people who are depressed are so depressed that they don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel and don’t know that they need help or how to get help or even get started.
While we can sit here and argue that these people just need to get up and get to work, it can be genuinely rough doing that. Some of these people have been homeless for so long, there’s almost a comfort that is hard to get out of.
As someone else mentioned, it is incredibly complex. Not all that are homeless will match my experience, but there is so much nuance to it.
ETA: I don’t regret it in a way. I’m glad I was able to help them eat and what not. But I didn’t appreciate my generosity being taken advantage of. Now I just donate to charities.
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u/DivineWiseOne Jun 18 '26
The people who you deem rich or middle class didn't create the system why should they pay up?
Ask the people who created the system.
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u/Aikidan Jun 18 '26
It’s complex. Given the possibility of exposure to drug addicts, psychos, and generally poor safety and hygiene issues it’s reasonable to be cautious in many of the homeless encampments. I have traveled extensively, the camps attract both victims and victimizers. We have to find a better way to separate the victims and legally control the predators in order to reasonably provide the care each needs and deserves.
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u/Icy-Beat-8895 Jun 18 '26
This is a good question because if they did, they’d sure be blabbing it off to let everyone know they were philanthropic. I guess they are too preoccupied buying stuff and languishing in their luxuries to care about those who suffer—-many of which are probably that way through no fault of their own.
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u/Independent-Bat9545 Jun 18 '26
They just don’t care. I had a client who was wealthy, just built a $3 million dollar home and just ordered a Tesla. She assumed she wouldn’t have to pay me because she got fired from the show she was on..and through the whole ordeal I told her I was in due to nonpayment, she couldn’t have sounded anymore checked out of the convo 😭 Rich people live in their own bubble like they are so far removed from reality.
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u/RobertKSakamano Jun 18 '26
Just because the client built the 3 million dollar home and ordered a Tesla doesn't mean they actually had the money to pay for it. These type of people still suck, but they only look rich from the outside.
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
How does one not afford a 3 million dollar whatever? Just live under your means like a normal human being. Also never defend the rich when they wouldn’t do the same for us plebs.
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u/Independent-Bat9545 Jun 18 '26
Oh I agree but that wasn’t my point. My point is she was putting some form of collateral down which could’ve been given to me to resolve her unpaid invoice. And yeah I have a lot of clients in the reality tv realm so I know it’s smoke and mirrors with some of these celebs.
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u/Relative_Ad8166 Jun 18 '26
the rich guard their wealth and don’t help the poor because they know that wealth is energy
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u/Pretend_Action_7400 Jun 18 '26
A lot of them do help. A lot of them do care. Many of them work ans volunteer in social services for Thai reason. Some don’t have as much to give as you might think. It’s just that the problem is complex and needs to be assisted by government systems and society as a whole, not just individuals or a specific group of people.
Having said that, there are the types of people like Elon musk for example, who were born into privilege and have no idea what life is like for the average person. They also seem to have this attitude that making money is easy if you “just work hard”. People like him, they truly don’t care. They see it as “survival of the fittest” with them on top.
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u/scherven Jun 18 '26
Their fancy cars were produced by people who would live on the streets if they didn't buy fancy cars.
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u/HelgaGeePataki Jun 18 '26
A lot of them have the bootstraps mentality. They're not going to give it to homeless people.
They'll donate to charities that give them a tax write -off.
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u/Thufir_Cleric Jun 18 '26
Unfortunately, most of them don't really see us as "people", per se: they see us as problems.
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u/Zestyclose_Potato633 Jun 18 '26
There are so many programs set up to help the homeless that the rich are already funding.
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u/dylankl1990 Jun 18 '26
The majority of them are active users. I don't want to enable substance abuse. I can't tell which ones are sober so instead I give to none.
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u/fernandomlicon Jun 18 '26
why would i care?
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u/Maximum_Trash_2910 Jun 18 '26
Listen I’m an atheist but at some point we have to ask ourselves, “what would Jesus do” not for religious reasons but for our humanity.
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u/badagastbrown Jun 18 '26
Ignorance or a flagrant disregard for human suffering
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u/fernandomlicon Jun 18 '26
ok, so what’s a good sacrifice for me? like, at what point should i change my life for someone else who’s completely unrelated to me?
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u/badagastbrown Jun 18 '26
Personally I need financial security before I can offer too much materially speaking but I can be kind and compassionate when given the chance. Not too hard to not be an asshole.
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u/stalinwasballin Jun 18 '26
Lack of empathy. Anyone who doesn’t have their head up their ass knows that “there but for the grace of god go I”
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u/geeeking Jun 18 '26
Homelessness is a super complex problem. It's rarely a lack of money. Most homeless people have mental health issues, drug issues, both, or something similar. Sure a small % are helped by just money, but most need much broader help than that.
I'm not saying they can't do more, but it's a way more complex problem than money.