Why do we pander to the poor?

Right on. People work themselves to their graves only to see lazy snobs get to live for free. Sure, it's not as good, but at least you get to have a crack room and spare money to get high.

Oh, and don't forget hearing from the same snobs amd crypto bros to 'just enjoy life! Don't work too hard!'. Go fuck yourselves.

We honor broken systems and policies. Seems to be a general culture of normalizing odd shit.

For example:
I grew up in a very non-discriminatory *impoverished neighborhood. The slums. The deliberately forgotten. Many of my peers had parents on welfare. Indefinitely. I'm not saying many of these parents didn't originally need assistance, however, affording them endless resources without the eventual expectation/demand of of work in exchange, was irresponsible at best, reckless at worst. It created or perpetuated dependency in the community and what it showed my peers was that you didn't NEED to be self-sufficient, you only needed to know how to consistently apply for “help”.

*This whole shit broken, y'all. There could be much better systems in place to HELP people when they need it without turning people into “professional” (see what I did there?) aid-seekers.

I honestly don’t know what the best solution is for homelessness, but I agree we don’t need to tax people more. I too am sick of my money going to people who don’t work (not can’t work.)

I want to point out that a lot of poor people genuinely *can't* do work. I'm not speaking about those that just sit around for no reason. I'm referring to people with genuine disabilities; both mental and physical.

With that being said, a lot of this is the fault of the school system. That "You can pursue whatever you want to do?" campaign that was in schools throughout the late 90s up to the early 2010s gave a lot of people false hope. They pursued something with no genuine plan of how to obtain that goal. This resulted in individuals who have degrees that they cannot use in their immediate area.

There is more to a human being than their ability to work. However, what I do agree with is that the super-rich should pay more to help the poor to live, at least because they effectively got super-rich as the poor got super-poor.

The 'self-made' rich should be even more willing to help because they know what it's like to struggle. You can almost understand a person who has known nothing but opulence their whole life, for needing an education of a very particular kind before they can hope to appreciate what financial hardship feels like and how people suffer under it.

Of course its relative to your area. I would be piss broke in san fransisco. Yet in the midwest I can foster a single worker household.

You're wrong tho I havd tried to help them thats why I'm so frustrated. I actually had a another friend just overdose recently and die and I tried my hardest to get him onto my company. He just simply wouldnt do it. He'd rather work a low wage and do a lot of drugs. But then he would go on the internet and complain about billionaires. The mindset is the problem and you cant think for them they have to change their mind themselves.

MAYBE if he was forced to work or starve he would have been able to turn it all around. His parents would bail him out and he also had all kinds of government aid.

Could just monitor them more closely. I believe granting them the necessary resources is a good thing, but working on getting out of the hole could probably be more strictly enforced. Like, get them an agent or something.

And whatever job they do get, make sure they're paid WELL for it.

Ones family finally gave up on them the other figured a way to mooch off their family and the government. Both are lazy and deserve nothing from me.

One is lower than another.

Here you go!

Homeless and jobless, really poor, regular poor [typical homelessness is rarely last 6 months], lower class, (goverment poverty line), lower working class, (actual poverty line) working class, upper working class, lower middle class, middle class, upper middle class, lower upper class, upper class, high class, and then you reach the level of rich where money really doesnt matter as a point of reference.

It's not a caste system as america has one of the most robust class mobility systems on the planet. Unless you are within a generational system with your family even then. Wealth typically doesnt last longer than 3 generations.

Since I'm a right libertarian my perspective on the homeless is that unless they are in extreme circumstances; have or are children or are so disabled they cant do basic tasks. That's when you should get aid.

The rest of them schmucks they can get a job and make a (crappy but still productive) life. Work any and I mean ANY job for 10 years and you can drag yourself out of poverty. If not I will not donate more aid then what is required for you to not starve to death.

I'm coming out of this as a navy vet who has seen fellow navy vets squander their potential thinking that the service will make them irresistible for employment. As well as squandering my own potential. That being said I have a hardworking but happy life.

I half agree. Some people who are homeless have medical issues and that's why they go homeless. I've seen it but I'd say many more homeless people are homeless by choice. In fact near me many people of all ages fully admit to wanting to be homeless. They have people handing them money and food and some even have communities where they sleep in tents then walk into town to beg for money.

Then there are those who have more and more children but don't work and lie about being disabled just so that they can get free handouts from the government, it's truly sick. The only thing that they should be getting is health care but getting money and food free every month is a bit weird. Those are the only people that annoy me. The government shouldn't be taxing anyone more to make up for it. Lower middle class, upper middle class and even upper class shouldn't be taxed more because they earned their money.