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Remarking over a coffee that there were far fewer homeless people than a couple of years previously, suddenly realizing that they had all died
someone in government near me admitted this recently
they were touting their reductions in homelessness, and someone at the meeting called them out and asked if that statistic would include people who died, and they don't even monitor that shit or try to adjust for it so of course it does.
Yep. We tend not to see it this way because it's just too horrible to bear, but homelessness is a death sentence.
Yep. I've made this connection before although I wouldn't be surprised if people much smarter than me did it before, but America is the Sparta of the modern day. Sure, you can say Britain is as well but they've fully passed the torch onto us.
Although more subtle, it's disgusting just how eugenic this society is. Prohibitively expensive rent likely in no small part to "weed out the weaklings" and have them die homeless. The low paychecks because "the american worker is too tough for decadence", and the creeping militarization of everything, but that's a rant for another day. Almost everything feels like it is designed to make life so insufferable for the poors under the foolish idea that they're "toughening us up" or something.