Feeling upset after reading a really awful thread about the growing homeless population in my area, my bad for opening it I guess. People had written stuff such as ~ because homeless people 'refuse to follow social contracts' they just don't deserve their basic needs being met ~ and ~ if a (homeless) person dares to enjoy the fact that they aren't working a job, they deserve to be jailed 🙂 ~
The snark about enjoying that relative freedom just really got me, as someone who fucking hates working for a wage: it's dehumanizing, alienating, etc. you get it. I have a four year degree, and I'm in grad school to hopefully pivot to a career I can actually handle and somewhat enjoy. I'm luckier than most. And still I'm disabled and poor, and being lucky enough to crash on friends' couches has saved me from personally being homeless, so far.
With 'progressive' democrats like Newsom newly cracking down on homelessness, I feel like stigma is just getting worse, and no realistic or humanitarian solutions are even being proposed anymore. I want to cry and burn shit, it just feels like we (the US) are going to go a lot farther down the road of more evictions, more poor people in jail before anything get better.