Reddit reviews Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives

I'm glad you're open to entertaining different viewpoints than your own, thank you for being here. I don't like how polarized online political spaces are, especially those that agree with a rational and solution-based policy rather than a reactionary one.

Did you buy the book? No? As I stated earlier I want to remove barriers to education, not support them. Sharing a file I legally obtained, of a book that I own, on a privately-owned forum... we can ask the author his feelings on this particular instance, though I'm positive I know the answer already. As for others' perceptions of me, I really don't care, although if I said I would if they looked at the material, I might admit it. (You might find in the work that there is no such thing as a pure system, and though ours is predominantly universal/communist, it is unique in that it has a tick stuck on a certain part of the system... find out where, and why it predominantly affects the middle class!)

I hope you realize the majority of the practices you defend having and "Killing someone who is convicted of horrible crimes is cheaper than jailing them for life, killing someone with a terminal illness is cheaper... Does not mean that is what we should do" is directly contradictory. "Expensive" things are okay when you do them, not when others do them. (Just for the record, the life sentence is cheaper than the death penalty. The terminal illness thing is a non-sequitur though, don't know where you're going with that.) You can tell a market failure 9 times out of 10 by seeing if the discrepancy has had a moral outrage tagged on it. I am not arguing that things are cheap, therefore good. Medicare for all, tuition reform, investment in renewables, are all ethically good but are branded as coming with a price tag. In reality they save money (well, not for the owners of the industries) and stimulate the economy to boot. The most extreme example I can think of is Housing First solutions to homelessness, where a person is literally handed keys to an apartment, free from rent for some amount of months. It's not only the most effective way to help a person secure a job and safely break from any addiction, and it's monstrously cheaper than the costs to taxpayers accrued by being on the streets, visiting the hospital for constant illness, law enforcement incidents, etc... it helps society and the person affected. (amazon link, you bastard) But, it helped an asshole, grr. Legislative policy should not be retributive. We're not out for revenge, we're out to establish a standard of living. If feelings get in the way of that, maybe talk about it with a friend, but try not to let it affect others. Morality, separation of church and state, etc.

I think you are missing my point as to my standard of living. I worked as hard as it was possible to work to get to my current standard of living, e.g. below your standards. Now I am working and taking 17 college credits, which I was only able to do by first overcoming that hurdle. This is the best a person can do. This is the greatest success of my class. The vast, countless majority of my peers are working very hard and didn't get nearly as far. Why should I care about the freeloaders now, until I see that the most hardworking Americans are getting the life they earned, no less? And, in all the ways I see to help them, for less money than I as a taxpayer are currently spending? I only see one person accepting a handout they did nothing to deserve, and using it as justification to deny others, and it's you. I don't dislike you for it, but I wonder why you insist I spend more on a system that is neglecting the basest services a government itself was conceived to supply.