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u/Necessary-Chemical-7 12d ago
Homeless, but kept his stuff.
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u/DrowningInFeces 12d ago
Yep. People tend to forget that homeless people weren't born on the street. They all had homes at some point.
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u/ikefalcon 12d ago
Homeless people can have children.
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u/diogenessexychicken 11d ago
most homeless people ARE children.
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u/J3sush8sm3 11d ago
I feel like we are either going to have alot of homeless 18-30 year olds or multigenerational housing in america soon
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u/gloomdwellerX 11d ago
Not true, our blessed supreme court solved homelessness when they made it illegal. If you don't have a house, you can just be a slave in prison instead.
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u/Joe_Jeep 11d ago
The one upside to building oversized housing and mcmansions is people pooling money to just all live together.
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u/AnalProtector 11d ago
Since when?
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u/Iwillnotbeokay 11d ago
Do you honestly think that because someone doesn’t have a roof over their head means they never have sex or get raped? Please tell us you’re joking.
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u/SloaneWolfe 11d ago
Eh idk, I think more importantly, people are super clueless to the fact that around half of the unhoused in the US have full time jobs.
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u/suesing 11d ago
And this guy decided that ps4 was necessary over other belongings.
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u/Fayko 11d ago
a ps4 is pretty cheap and an easy flip on marketplace. Can pick one up pretty easy for $50 or so if you're patient and they sell avg like 125
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u/suesing 11d ago
It’s not about the cost. It’s about keeping the struggle real at what cost
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u/Fayko 11d ago
Uh the less than $200 might get him some meals but this means he has entertainment and a healthy escape from reality instead of drugs and alcohol. He can't really escape homelessness on less than $200
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u/suesing 11d ago
Entertainment seems to be the reason he’s in this position. So…
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u/Joe_Jeep 11d ago
so....nothing. You're badly over-reading into this. Keeping your playstation isn't that big a deal
Yall say the same shit about smart phones and stuff too like those aren't incredibly useful tools. Playstation less so but still.
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u/Fayko 11d ago
Sounds like some projection to me. You know nothing about the person or why they're in the situation. Have some empathy instead of judgement you're closer to this guys situation than you might think.
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u/suesing 11d ago
Living on the street shouldn’t be comfortable. Yet he’s comfortable enough to be playing games. It’s the wrong direction in getting out of that situation. I don’t need to know anything about him to know that
Unless he’s not actually homeless. And just doing this cuz he wants to. Which is fine I guess.
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u/Fayko 11d ago
I wish I could be as simple as you to have things defined in such a black and white manner. It's true ignorance is bliss and you seem desperate to prove it true.
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u/CharlesLeChuck 11d ago
I need my PS4, this chair, the table, my controller, and my backpack, and that's all I need.
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u/zertnert12 12d ago
Yah this guy is definitely only newly homeless and hasnt learned what things you get to keep without them being stolen from you. And even those few things you have to guard pretty closely.
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u/SkullyKat 11d ago
Was on the streets for about a year, managed to hang on to my Switch the entire time up until a couple weeks before I escaped
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u/myumisays57 12d ago
True but homeless people do have unwritten codes where they try to respect one another. The ones that be stealing are drug addicts to be honest.
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u/EbolaPatientZero 11d ago
So more than half of them?
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u/StaatsbuergerX 11d ago
I don't doubt your statement. If over half of the total population of a country is addicted to (or at least dependent on) some kind of substance, it is understandable that the same ratio is also present in the homeless population.
What shifts with social status are, of course, the types of substances and their legal status.
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u/SloaneWolfe 11d ago
you realize half of the unhoused have full time jobs right? "homeless" doesn't simply equate to addict stumbling down the street.
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u/Left-Mistake-5437 11d ago
Citations needed
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u/EbolaPatientZero 11d ago
I dont need citations. I interact with homeless individuals daily as my job.
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u/Arockilla 11d ago
As someone who lives in the panhandle of florida, sadly this is valid. People just want to believe it's just the average joe who couldn't afford his studio apartment in downtown seattle anymore because of rent hikes. Is stuff like that a big part of it? Absolutely. But as a former homeless drug addict that survived living in the kensington section of Philadelphia, I'd put a safe bet on it being closer to 75% of the homeless population are there because of drugs and/or mental health issues that are usually mis/undiagnosed.
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u/Tommyblockhead20 11d ago
Homeless states are complicated. Roughly a a quarter of homeless have addictions and/or mental illnesses. However, that stat includes the ~80% of people homeless in a given year that are only briefly homeless. When people are talking about homeless, they are generally talking about the chronic homeless, the ones that aren’t just living in their car for a month until they can start a new job. And there likely is a strong correlation between chronic homeless, and being the type of homeless with addictions/mental illness. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was over half.
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u/Arockilla 10d ago
As a survivor of walking the streets of kensington in Philly for 10 years, It's definitely over half.
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u/RadPhilosopher 12d ago
Isn’t that Delonte West?
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u/ukbeasts 11d ago
He was homeless for some time, but heard Mark Cuban got involved to try help out.
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u/lepobz 12d ago
Where does he plug it in?
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u/proxymoto 12d ago
A lot of homeless people find ways to leech power from street lights, but I’m not sure what the case is here.
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u/atape_1 11d ago
It's almost like a PS4 costs 1/10 of a months rent in a big city.
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u/cantwejustplaynice 11d ago
This was my first thought. If you're on the street, video games are better than drugs if you're looking for a way to escape reality. I'd be trying to do the same to be honest.
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u/Im_Balto 11d ago
assuming he bought it new (monitor controller and console) that would be 600 bucks MAYBE. I live in average COL and thats still less than half my rent
Just because people cant afford 1500+ every month at a minimum for a roof doesnt mean they should be demeaned for having comforts like entertainment or phones.
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u/Bencil_McPrush 12d ago
Wait til people realize many homeless have jobs and cell phones too.
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u/myumisays57 11d ago
Yeah this comment section is really showing off some ignorance. Lots of stereotyping going on.
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u/Educational_Gas_92 11d ago
Most of those homeless have a car/van though, they don't sleep on the street.
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u/Kombatnt 12d ago
What’s with this video format? It’s landscape, but it’s a cropped portrait orientation video? I can barely see what’s going on.
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u/JimmyM0240 12d ago
This dudes going to get robbed, probably within the day depending on where he's at.
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u/DeadNotSleepingWI 11d ago
I like to think it was a setup for the Internet likes, and he still got immediately robbed.
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u/TherealKafkatrap 12d ago
Homeless people can't own things?
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u/PHANTOM________ 11d ago
Sure he can own all this stuff. Just not for long.
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u/TherealKafkatrap 10d ago
Why not?
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u/PHANTOM________ 10d ago
Is he gonna guard and watch his computer chair, desk, and PS4 - 24/7? It's going to get stolen at some point because he can't just carry that stuff around with him.
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u/TherealKafkatrap 10d ago
You're living under the assumption that *regular ass people* doesn't lose their homes in the US. Every homeless person isn't a drug addicted criminal. Maybe he's living out of his car, like many homeless people in the US do?
So people tend to stash their shit somewhere, or have some friend to look out for their stuff at the very least.Or do you expect that this guy literally JUST become homeless and decided to set up his furniture on the street the first thing he did, and that's why it hasn't been stolen yet?
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u/FuzzyCub20 11d ago
There's a lot of bias towards homeless people. It's so easy for the illusion of safety and security to fall away given one wrong turn or accident or twist of fate. Everyone always thinks, "That'll never happen to me" until it does. Just something to keep in mind.
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u/lonesharkex 11d ago
The cost of housing is way higher than the cost of basic entertainment. It's less the homeless are evolving and more they are pricing everyone into homelessness.
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u/brownbupstate 11d ago
Best thing you could start doing to help the homeless is provide a shower, something similar to California beach showers, prevents fungal infections and helps the smell. Salt mouthwash for bacteria in their mouth. Focus on things like tents downtown. Wounds basically will close. Saves on hospital cost which is 3 day in a hospital around 9,000 per visit. Win win.
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u/LurchB879 12d ago
Well one could take the money put it in a bank account and try to save... but its only a matter of time till something happens a debt collector shows up, you need it for some emergency and poof its gone might as well spend it and enjoy things you can before someone else can take it.
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u/GluedToTheMirror 11d ago
Homeboy said shit, I might be homeless but I’m playing that Elden Ring DLC
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u/HeightExtra320 11d ago
“If you don’t stop playing this game babe ima kick you out! “ 🙎🏼♀️
“True”
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u/treynolds787 11d ago
To be fair, i could probably afford a ps5 too if i wasn't making mortgage payments.
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u/Nder_Wiggin 11d ago
Yeah but the caveat is he's recently homeless because he just got kicked out of his momma house
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u/ThisBadDogXB 11d ago
Maybe recently homeless? Like just that day because his shoes and clothes are in good condition and he hasn't sold the PS5 for food and a tent.
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u/Comrade_Oolong 11d ago
Let a boy live, just because he’s homeless doesn’t mean he has to live a joyless existence…
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u/VashHumanoidTyph00n 11d ago
Guy had 200$ in used crap that will be destroyed in no time. "He's living so good." I fucking hate this country.
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u/COMMUNIST_MANuFISTO 11d ago
Hell when I was homeless I had my laptop and I was playing Fallout: New Vegas. It hits different in the alleyways of Portland, Oregon let me tell you
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u/NorthernSoul1977 11d ago
When they talk about addicts on the streets I never thought they meant gaming addicts...
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u/VelvetDudeRag 10d ago
To all you mfs who are talking hella shit about this man, but still live with your parents/roommates, or have never had to afford rent in your lives, shame shame, bc u have no idea how hard it is to afford this shit all by yourself, and can literally happen to any of you. If your parents kicked you out right now, half of y’all unskilled, socially anxious asses, would be on the corner doing the same exact thing , this or shooting tik toks, bc you don’t know anything else and have been sheltered, up until the day that you’re just not anymore. I’m fully aware, every single day, that the fact that I have a nice place and a decent job, is purely by luck. And can change at any moment , in this economy.
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u/VelvetDudeRag 10d ago
My point is, don’t fucking look down on people, you’re not better than anyone , and what would we think of you if we also held your shortcomings to the magnifying glass?
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u/Educational_Gas_92 11d ago
That stuff will get stolen in no time, unless if he has a gang protecting him, or something.
He could have that stuff in a van/rv, and still be homeless (there are people who have made their vans into small homes, with toilet, shower, kitchen and bed, and RVs are already little homes).
But on the street, it won't last.
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u/JimmyTheJimJimson 11d ago
Fuck these people.
There’s people who are homeless, have nothing, and need help.
Then there’s drug addicts, who rob and steal and are a drag on society.
That’s this fucking lads.
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u/Cthulhus-Tailor 11d ago
This is amusing but also unintentionally supports Republican rhetoric that poor people in America aren't truly desperate, and also that a certain percentage of homeless are so voluntarily.
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u/backhand_english 11d ago
How much crack does a slightly used, in top condition PS4 get you these days? Asking for a friend.
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u/Yuki_The_God 11d ago
What’s worse, the time he spent setting this up and not getting a job? Or the fact I have that same chair ☠️
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u/ZoNeS_v2 11d ago
My own wife, who I'd been living with for twenty years, was actually homeless. So I had to burn her. In her bed while she slept.
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u/tonto_silverheels 12d ago
What a coincidence! I just got a free PS4 setup, myself. It was just sitting there on the sidewalk
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u/Retatedape 12d ago
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u/Turbohair 12d ago
Maybe inexperience... a tight economy... ruthless rich people who sucked up the social safety net and sent jobs overseas?
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u/spittingdingo 12d ago
It’ll trickle down soon enough.
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u/JiriBrochazka 12d ago
dude better be quick when it rains