That’s one reason why I’ve always been told never to give money to homeless people sure it could help but most of the time they are just going to blow it on drugs so if you actually want to help give them food or a comb or cologne so they can make themselves more presentable in a job interview
I give money to homeless people exclusively as my form of charity. At least in the US, I see no hope. I vote blue out of harm reduction. I see no point in giving to charities where some affluent person in an expensive suit draws a salary from donations, coordinates fancy parties for people like themselves to charm them into acting like human beings for a moment and parting with some infinitesimal fraction of their sociopathic dragon hoards in exchange for both bragging rights and tax breaks that robs the commons they owe so not real charity, and calls that being a humanitarian.
I see our massive homeless cities as monuments to our society’s avarice and malice. Fellow citizens we sent out to die of exposure and police harassment at their lowest point for the crime of not producing value for the owners.
I hope when I give $20 to one of our society’s greatest victims, they spend it on whatever will give them a moment of temporary relief or escape from what our society has done to them. If they have mental illness or drug addiction issues, it is 100% our fault as members of this society for not helping them, and we don’t, as that would require significant resources and we’re all out for ourselves as “rugged individuals,” as if there’s some kind of perverse honor in that.
Amazingly, it’s middle class people who blow their money on drugs and booze, not the homeless. There are obviously people in the community who do. Not helping someone because you don’t like what they MIGHT do with it is screaming narcissism at us.
You don’t give money to the bums
On a corner with a sign bleeding from their gums
Talking about you don’t support a crackhead?
What you think happens to the money from your taxes?
Shit, the Government’s an addict
With a billion dollar a week kill brown people habit
That’s one reason why I’ve always been told never to give money to homeless people sure it could help but most of the time they are just going to blow it on drugs so if you actually want to help give them food or a comb or cologne so they can make themselves more presentable in a job interview
I give money to homeless people exclusively as my form of charity. At least in the US, I see no hope. I vote blue out of harm reduction. I see no point in giving to charities where some affluent person in an expensive suit draws a salary from donations, coordinates fancy parties for people like themselves to charm them into acting like human beings for a moment and parting with some infinitesimal fraction of their sociopathic dragon hoards in exchange for both bragging rights and tax breaks that robs the commons they owe so not real charity, and calls that being a humanitarian.
I see our massive homeless cities as monuments to our society’s avarice and malice. Fellow citizens we sent out to die of exposure and police harassment at their lowest point for the crime of not producing value for the owners.
I hope when I give $20 to one of our society’s greatest victims, they spend it on whatever will give them a moment of temporary relief or escape from what our society has done to them. If they have mental illness or drug addiction issues, it is 100% our fault as members of this society for not helping them, and we don’t, as that would require significant resources and we’re all out for ourselves as “rugged individuals,” as if there’s some kind of perverse honor in that.
Amazingly, it’s middle class people who blow their money on drugs and booze, not the homeless. There are obviously people in the community who do. Not helping someone because you don’t like what they MIGHT do with it is screaming narcissism at us.