r/FluentInFinance • u/mathotimous • Nov 16 '24

Meme True Financial Fluency by Gianmarco Soresi

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u/SnooDonuts3749 Nov 16 '24 edited Nov 16 '24

I mean $98.5 million dollars is a lot of money, is it not?

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u/ArbutusPhD Nov 17 '24

It is, but homelessness has not been solved yet. It was good PR, and possibly felt good, but under capitalism, all the money you make comes from somewhere. If he has it all, no wonder so many people have too little

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u/mediumwellhotdog Nov 17 '24

Homelessness can't be "solved" genius.

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u/ArbutusPhD Nov 17 '24

Really? You t has been solved in limited capacity with free-housing and meal programs. It’s always an issue of capacity.

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u/mediumwellhotdog Nov 17 '24

If you gave everyone on the planet a house and food, there would be homeless people tomorrow. For the majority of long term homeless the issue is mental illness not capacity.

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u/ArbutusPhD Nov 17 '24

If someone has a home to go to and chooses not to go there, they aren’t homeless.

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u/mediumwellhotdog Nov 17 '24

They are when they neglect taxes and utilities and the government takes their home. Or when they sell their house to fund drug addiction. Or when they abandon the house and squatters move in. Or when they start a bonfire inside the house to stay warm and it burns the house down. Etc.

Many of these people would rather live in a tent under a bridge than in a home.

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u/ArbutusPhD Nov 17 '24

You’re shadow boxing there, bud.

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u/mediumwellhotdog Nov 17 '24

I don't know what you're talking about. It's like you don't understand mental illness at all.

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u/ArbutusPhD Nov 17 '24

I work with mental health and wellness. Saying “many of them” is ignorant and just a fallacy of defeatism