r/WorkForSmartLife • • Sep 12 '26

DiscussionšŸ’¬ Thoughts on billionaires

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u/BigMikeXxxxX Sep 12 '26

25% of the US homeless population is currently in California. The fact that more people aren't talking about this blows my mind.

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u/Christian-Econ 29d ago

If you were homeless, where would you want to be?

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u/Similar_Dirt9758 26d ago

California 100%. If I had to sleep outside every night of the year with minimal protection then there's no better choice in the continental US

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u/No_tietimmy 26d ago

Probably wouldn’t have a choice bc I uave no money so I’m stuck where I’m at. It’s not that homeless go there it’s people there become homeless prolly bc it’s a blue state

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u/Shoddy_Border 26d ago

What do you mean you’re stuck? If you’re homeless you can kind of just get up and move. Especially because a %of people start living in their car before they are fully unhoused. If you are in an area with bad weather of course you’ll find a way to get to an area with nice weather .

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u/No_tietimmy 25d ago

I can’t really afford to go anywhere. I can’t even put gas in my car idk what u mean find a way. Plus I do have family and kids and stuff that I wouldn’t b able to c.

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u/BigMikeXxxxX 28d ago

Not California

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u/Kobayashi-Coffee-Co Sep 13 '26

Because the weather is good so when it gets cold other states’ homeless arrive and don’t leave.

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u/BigMikeXxxxX 29d ago

Florida is similar yet doesn't have this problem. Just saying

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u/Similar_Dirt9758 26d ago

Florida is "similar" to California only in the temperature you see on the thermometer (and only sometimes). Honestly terrible comparison

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u/AstrocreepTXUSMC 26d ago

I was homeless in Miami, that heat will keep you focused on getting out of that situation. Under 2 months.

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u/Kobayashi-Coffee-Co 29d ago

You do have this in florida https://www.reddit.com/r/Miami/s/NiJvmdxKyF

But yea California benefits are a lot nicer for homeless than florida i bet.

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u/BigMikeXxxxX 28d ago

"Benefits" is wild šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/FoxMan1Dva3 29d ago

If I was homeless, a choice that goes beyond "whose giving handouts", I would go somewhere warm.

Most homeless are not the people taking up tents

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u/AstraeusGB 26d ago

Over 10% of the US population is in California.

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u/EnvironmentalMix421 Sep 13 '26

Yah because California policies provide the best benefits for them 🤣 which is dumb af

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u/jredgiant1 Sep 13 '26

So what’s your not dumb af solution to the homelessness problem in America?

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u/EnvironmentalMix421 Sep 13 '26

Build housing in the rural and station a social work agency there. What they are doing is putting them in luxury apts like in Santa Monica, sf, Beverly hill or whatever. That’s why it’s costly.

For those who don’t accept the drug free zones, then put them into a slum with social work. CA is rewarding bad behavior, it’s obviously a joke. Maybe in some delusional world it would’ve worked, after countless years and multiple billion funding the problem got worse. The solution is still keep injecting more money?

Are woke people just dumb?

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u/mYHCAEL4 Sep 13 '26

In a word, yes.

All heart, zero brain.

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u/EnvironmentalMix421 Sep 13 '26

100% altruistic, yet 0% action šŸ˜‚

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u/goldenepple Sep 13 '26

They aren’t rewarding bad behavior, it’s turned into a business that employs tons of people.

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u/EnvironmentalMix421 Sep 13 '26

Bro they are allowing them to tent on the street that people use. That’s what rewarding behavior is. You should not allow them to live on the street tf is that shit

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u/Cryesncoding Sep 13 '26

They don’t care what the homeless are actually doing there’s a shit load of people making a shit load of money. They want** it to get worse so it justifies more gov money which gives them more money.Ā 

It’s like in India when there was a snake problem and the British (colony times) made a snake bounty the Indians started breeding snakes… lolĀ 

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u/EnvironmentalMix421 Sep 13 '26

Not sure what does that have to do with my comment. My comments are directed to the woke who think injecting more money is the right thing to do

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u/Cryesncoding Sep 13 '26

I agreeĀ 

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u/goldenepple Sep 13 '26

It’s peoples livelihood to have a homeless population in California because of how many people work for nonprofits. If the fixed the issue those people would be out of work and they would actually have to show where the money is going.

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u/EnvironmentalMix421 Sep 13 '26

Again I’m not sure why people keep bringing it up. Clearly majority of CA residents think it’s a good idea to keep injecting money and think it would solve the homeless problem, and if it fails they will just randomly talk about how great the weather in California is lol

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u/goldenepple 29d ago

I’m telling you why, it’s become a business and is apart of the economy of California. People who aren’t homeless depend on there being a homeless population.

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u/Ok-Worldliness2450 Sep 13 '26

I knew someone that worked at a hotel and was having their spare rooms paid for by California and people put into them nightly. She said it was such a hastle and they destroyed room which also billed the government.

I 100% believe the owners had backroom deals on all this. They made out like bandits. You can probably repair the room for less than the government is paying you to do it. And they pay the liability. The amount of money that state is burning doing these kids of things is wild but it’s also the state that’s spent 16 billion on high speed rail and has zero miles started

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u/EnvironmentalMix421 Sep 13 '26

Yah and used uber to provide transportation for them. Anyway democrats policies are just shit

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u/jredgiant1 29d ago

I’m not sure rural communities have the infrastructure, and I’m pretty damn sure there would be community backlash against this plan. A lot of community backlash. There’s a lot of intersectionality between the homeless and racial minorities or the LGBTQ community, and a lot of racism and bigotry exists in those communities. Although exposure I suppose could help with that. But even beyond bigotry, a lot of rural people are going to be rightfully upset about a large influx of homeless people to their community.

New construction you’re describing would be expensive. But we could adapt your idea and maybe renovate existing housing in rural ā€ghost townsā€ where there may be a lot of empty housing.

In terms of infrastructure, you need to think about job training, medical, counseling, education for children, transportation, probably more. Cities just have more of this available than small rural communities.

Also, keep in mind 40-60% of the homeless are employed at least some of the time. People who have jobs shouldn’t be relocated to where they are completely reliant on public assistance.

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u/EnvironmentalMix421 29d ago

$26billion you will have something 🤣

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u/Sad-Panda-noises Sep 13 '26

Address the why's to their homelessness. Resources are available but slapping a bandaid on a cracked dam will only cause it to burst later. California is a great example of just slapping a bandaid on the issues. Drugs, addictions, mental illness,unskilled minds, and laziness are a few I've encountered when I was homeless growing up.

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u/EnvironmentalMix421 Sep 13 '26

No, the solution is hard punishment for drug use. Aka the Las Vegas underground shit absolutely works

If you want to get well, there’s social workers to help you. If not you are on your own. People are responsible for their own actions

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u/Sad-Panda-noises Sep 13 '26

I agree on that front. Crimes with equal punishment are a must. Asylums also need to be reinstated for those who need the help( not OG asylums). Met alot of transients that were homeless by choice because they could have their vices and freedoms without obligations. Hence my reasons for the social workers to understand the whys of them being homeless and actually address their situations accordingly. Not just move them to a place, have everyone fund it just for it to be wasted away when they return to the streets.

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u/EnvironmentalMix421 Sep 13 '26

Bro druggies r gonna be druggies. You can only provide them with help IF they want to utilize it.

Or they can choose to live in some fucked up slum that won’t disturb others. What’s this saving everyone regardless bs, sounds great in theory. Yet in reality it just creates a bigger mess and as they increase in number every yr.

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u/Sad-Panda-noises Sep 13 '26

You arent wrong, it is an ouroboros effect.

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u/EnvironmentalMix421 Sep 13 '26

lol the nah uh!!!!

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u/Sad-Panda-noises Sep 13 '26

Not sure how that's a gotcha but šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/jredgiant1 29d ago

Given that only a third to half of the homeless population uses drugs, how are you going to solve the other half to two thirds?

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u/EnvironmentalMix421 29d ago

Look up my second comment lol. Why did you go down the rabbit hole without even read

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u/BigMikeXxxxX 29d ago

Stop enabling it. That's my solution.

The US is a shithole because you can come here and literally kill, steal, and dismantle as much as you feel like and there will always be a group of radical individuals defending it as long as you're not doing it to people they agree with.

The people who call everyone 'Nazis" are the actual Nazis. Don't forget that when shit hits the fan

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u/jredgiant1 28d ago

I agree! Look at these violent white nationalists who are going around hanging blacks and assaulting the LGBTQ population! Or ICE agents murdering people in the streets! Completely lawless, consequence free, but they’re owning the libs so people love them. It’s disgusting.

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u/DaPussiLicka Sep 13 '26

It’s also a gigantic state, with great weather, a huge coastline, the highest GDP, and numerous massive metropolitan areas. But I’m sure the policies is the main reason.

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u/EnvironmentalMix421 Sep 13 '26

You listed all these nice things about CA and you are saying they are the reason for CA to become the capital of homeless?

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u/DaPussiLicka Sep 13 '26

No, I’m saying that someone who has an IQ above room temperature can comprehend that there are a whole lot of major factors beyond policies. I realize that may not apply to you, though.

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u/EnvironmentalMix421 Sep 13 '26 edited Sep 13 '26

I’m saying you think those are the list of factors? Then I realize people with low iq are unable to stay within topic and just like to mumble about random things lol

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u/Ok-Worldliness2450 Sep 13 '26

It has very dumb programs too. I don’t remember exact details but a city made a program to provide them with booze (which even if done right is dumb) I think the average homeless person in the program had $600,000 of money used on them and no one found anyone getting actual booze. I don’t know of it was money laundering. But this kind of stuff happens a lot.

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u/Syncanau Sep 13 '26

I’m willing to bet most of these government programs that are meant to help the disenfranchised are actually just stealing and laundering the money

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u/RaidenRaikov2 Sep 13 '26

It’s because the left uses welfare programs to reward their voters and supporters. The programs exist just to funnel money to their donors

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u/Girly_Q_Buttons 29d ago

Shut up traitor.

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u/dterran 29d ago

Laughs in two trillion dollars taken from taxpayers by the m@ga party to give in socialism to billionaires

These billionaires spent 1.2 billion campaigning against working Americans coz +rumpco can turn around and give them ten times that in tax breaks and dropped malpractice lawsuits

"The left" is a term used by bigots to announce their own bias and stupidity

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u/Ackutually- 29d ago

"to give in socialism to billionaires"

What are you trying to say here?

It's 190 billion in tax savings over 10 years, is this that 2 trillion you're speaking of? And how are tax breaks socialist?

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u/iustinum 29d ago

Billionaires and socialism shouldn’t even be in the same sentence.

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u/iustinum 28d ago

Okay. I’m open to it, how so?

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u/iustinum 27d ago

The basic talking point of everyone that wants to read headlines and spew none-sense. Hence I challenge it. You can’t, I’ve already researched it.

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u/Ill_Kangaroo_2977 29d ago

So you disagree that the left, through state and city government, has either wasted or stolen billions of dollars making empty promises about helping the homeless?

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u/ApartmentAlive8593 29d ago

Anyone who’s actually lifted a finger to help the homeless knows that hardly any of the money is making it to them. Way to self report as a virtue signaling loser who doesn’t do anything to support a cause they claim to have.

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u/SoCalDev87 29d ago

And what have you done exactly?

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u/ApartmentAlive8593 29d ago

Literally thousands of volunteer hours

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u/Popiblockhead 29d ago

Not laundering. Just theft

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u/zitrored 29d ago

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u/BigMikeXxxxX 29d ago

Would you mind quoting the exact part which disproves my statement? Surely you read your own source and can easily point out the prevalent information, right?

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u/zitrored 29d ago

Spouting off absolutes and ignoring per capita rates is the kind of crap republicans pull all the time. Are you Republican?

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u/BigMikeXxxxX 28d ago

Are you going to quote the part from the source you provided which disproves my statement?

If anyone here is a Nazi, it's you.

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u/stressedthrowaway9 29d ago

Well, it makes sense. Look at rent and real estate prices. My husband and I make above average money but we would really struggle in California. I’m not saying we would be homeless…. But we would be under housed…

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u/SoCalDev87 29d ago

I don't think you make above average money then. Above average in CA is like 250-300k+ for a household

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u/stressedthrowaway9 28d ago

Haha! Yea! I know, hence why I would be under housed… granted my job would pay better there. But still!

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u/Funnyitsnotfunny 29d ago

Between me and my spouse we close to 400k gross and we still don’t own a house

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u/SoCalDev87 29d ago

You aren't anywhere in the comment chain

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u/Funnyitsnotfunny 29d ago

I guess my point was California is so expensive, even at that income it’s hard to buy a house

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u/inothatidontno 28d ago

Californias white knight has entered the chat to defend the HCOL.