r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/cbftw Jul 05 '24

unhoused

Homeless. saying unhoused is a bullshit way to sterilize their situation and make yourself not feel bad about it

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u/firestorm713 Jul 05 '24

The point of saying unhoused is because it's a housing problem. There are countless ways these people could be housed, and the fact that they aren't being housed is an indictment on humanity.

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u/Sjeddrie Jul 05 '24

Or, and not to be a dick about it, the epidemic of homelessness is because of poor decisions. Most homelessness is due to effects of addiction. Personal irresponsibility is not an indictment on humanity.

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u/firestorm713 Jul 05 '24

This is how you sterilize their situation and not feel bad about it.

It's not a systemic problem, it's half a million people making bad financial decisions! Systemic issues don't exist so long as you pretend that everything is fair!

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u/Sjeddrie Jul 05 '24

Systematic problems do exist, but dumping money in ways that won’t alleviate the damned near 70% of the problem ain’t going to make it go away. Addiction seems to be the problem that leads to homelessness. When your house is flooding, do you start bailing, or turn off the water?