Some don’t want jobs. They just want to be left alone. Spent some time with a ptsd patient that was homeless and had friends like him, all veterans, all just not wanting to be part of our dociety.
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Also sometimes people just beg because it's easier than working
The number of fake homeless begging cases is sad. Back when I lived in NYC I remember a man was begging in the subway and a woman offered him a banana and he said he only accepted money WTF
It's not that simple. I work with a homeless population. They need money, and jobs, and housing, and medical care, and mental health care, and all the things other people need. One of the biggest issues is trying to figure out which one needs to come first.
Also, a lot of hjomeless are that way for a reason. They have severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or other isduesvwhich make intetacting with the public impossible, which completely rules out holding a job. They also either refuse government assistance or cannot attain it due to lack of identification or ability to communicate
Addiction and mental illness are definitely the 1 and 1A of homelessness causes, and more often than not they're not exclusive. Most of the folks I work with are proud and don't much like the idea of getting government assistance.
The "street homeless" are actually a small portion of our countries homeless population. They are often suffering from mental illness and addiction and keeping a job is nearly impossible. Many, many homeless people are living in cars and couch surfing and you see them at their jobs every day but you don't know they are homeless because you have this ignorant idea that homeless people are drug addicts who don't work and are less valuable people who don't deserve care and love and humanity.
So she hired all the homeless to work at her company that made coats that turned into sleeping bags for the homeless. Of course, since there were no more homeless to make coats that turned into sleeping for, the company went out of businesses, leaving all the employees homeless, without coats, or sleeping bags. This foolish venture accomplished nothing and left everyone rather confused.
It doesn't sound like a very big company, only employing homeless people is not equivalent to employing ALL of them. Also you could distribute them in other cities/countries as well.
I believe it simply spirals out into a purportedly perplexing paradox in which the workers ultimately end up making coats for themselves which they then no longer need as they all are no longer homeless and then as there are no more homeless, the factories go out of business, thus leaving the workers homeless once more, until the cycle repeats enough times for each worker to have infinite coats.
That's kind of rude to say that the coats don't matter, making a positive difference in someone's life definitely matters. No matter how small, don't let that discourage you from making a difference, every little bit helps.
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